As we saw in the previous blog posts, an ideal inpatient assessment section of a SOAP note answers (1) who the patient is; (2) why the patient was[...]
4 Physician Insights about Evaluating AI Healthcare Solutions
How can Clinical Information Officers be confident about which AI technology will truly enable clinicians to focus more on patients and less on[...]
How AI is Changing the Practice of Medicine for Physicians
The promise of AI in healthcare is very real and AI is accomplishing more than ever before. The advancements are no longer just automation, they are[...]
Part 3: Icing on the “Assessment”: Customization and Elaboration
As described in part 1, the assessment statement represents a brief summary of the patient case. However, authors may elaborate on the statement[...]
Artificial Intelligence and the Restoration of the Medical SOAP Note Part 2: Assessment Deconstructed
As I discussed in Part I of this series, the Assessment is the 3rd section in a SOAP note, and represents a tightly worded yet comprehensive summary[...]
Artificial Intelligence & the Restoration of the Medical SOAP Note
SOAP notes, or progress notes, are the part of a patient's medical record where healthcare professionals record a concise yet comprehensive summary[...]
The Types of Hospital Discharge Barriers AI Can Surface
There are a number of barriers that can cause a patient’s discharge from the hospital to be delayed. These barriers extend the length of stay of a[...]
The Importance of Content, Concept & Context in Decision Support NLP
Natural language processing (NLP) is an important aspect of artificial intelligence that allows machines to process large amounts of data in human[...]
Clinician-in-the-Loop Machine Learning
The delivery of high performance clinical care – care that is reliable, efficient, and timely – is difficult. Even under the best marriage of[...]