Tag: electronic health record
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Weekly digest (19-23 Jul 2021)
Khetpal, V., & Shah, N. (2021, May 28). How a largely untested AI algorithm crept into hundreds of hospitals. Fast Company. The use of algorithms to support clinical decision-making isn’t new. But historically, these tools have been put into use only after a rigorous peer review of the raw data and statistical analyses used to…
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Comment: Amazon Transcribe Medical
The new machine learning-powered service, Amazon Transcribe Medical, will allow physicians to quickly dictate their clinical notes and speech into accurate text in real time, without any human intervention, Amazon claims. Perez, S. (2019). Amazon debuts automatic speech recognition service, Amazon Transcribe Medical. Techcrunch. I use voice recognition on my phone fairly often and am…
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Doctors are burning out because electronic medical records are broken
For all the promise that digital records hold for making the system more efficient—and the very real benefit these records have already brought in areas like preventing medication errors—EMRs aren’t working on the whole. They’re time consuming, prioritize billing codes over patient care, and too often force physicians to focus on digital recordkeeping rather than…