Dates: January 27-28, 2020 Bangkok, Thailand
Three Ways To Improve Healthcare Workflow
Nothing divides a room like an EHR debate. While electronic health record adoption continues to increase in the U.S., it’s far from being universally welcomed. Sections of the healthcare community see EHRs as more of a hindrance than a help - and a costly one at that - but love them or hate them, given the carrot-and-stick incentives of Meaningful Use and now Promoting Interoperability, EHRs are here to stay.
Health systems leaders are challenged to ensure technology investments are integrated to support the best patient experience possible and aid administrative processes and optimize workflows, from improving care coordination to streamlining clinical documentation processing and care team communication
Interoperability remains a challenge for seamless exchange of medical documentation inside and outside the provider organization. This leads to the persistence of outdated technologies that can be a major drain on productivity. Pagers, fax machines, paper records; all of the critical functions served by these manual and analog processes could be significantly improved with digital equivalents.
AI (Artificial Intelligence) has been a hot topic in the healthcare world for many years now, and as the benefits are starting to become more widely recognized, more organizations are beginning to adopt AI in an effort to improve workflow practices.
A recent article on AMA points to three ways medical AI can improve workflow for physicians:
Point-of-care learning: AI can personalize content delivery to physicians as clinical questions arise, in order to minimize time spent searching for relevant information online or in textbooks.
Clinical documentation: AI has the potential to complete clinical documentation tasks with greater efficiency, such as extracting relevant information from a physician’s free-text narrative and inserting it into appropriate structured data fields.
Quality-measurement reporting: AI could replace manual data-collection processes by reviewing clinical documents and extracting information for quality reports and to populate missing data fields, saving physicians hours of work every week.
