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How to design electronic patient records that doctors would love Doctors need reliable information to make an accurate diagnosis and plan the treatment. However, they don’t want to waste time manually typing data into a computer and clicking around looking for relevant data. Electronic medical records (EMR), even those in the world’s most modern hospitals, are far from perfect. But scientists and engineers are working to make medical IT systems smarter. A new chapter in medicine was supposed to begin with replacing paper patient records with electronic ones. Doctors were promised quick access to data, while patients should benefit from improved quality of care and personalized medicine. Instead, frustrated doctors spend hours entering medical notes into a computer or browsing through electronic records
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every day. This is not the digitalization they dreamed of. First, the bad news. Today’s EDM is only as good as the available technology. Similar challenges with recording and interpreting data also exist in other sectors. Neither artificial intelligence nor voice recognition systems are good enough to transform the doctor’s interaction with
EDM. But there is also good news – the development of AI is so fast that in the next few years, it will be used more frequently in the doctor’s practice, improving the convenience of work.
New interaction between man and machine Until recently, the great hope for a breakthrough was IBM Watson – an artificial intelligence system to support clinical decision-making, especially in oncology. However, the first attempt to engage AI in the work of clinicians was disappointing. The problem was not the technology itself but the limited access to data. Nevertheless, IBM has managed to build some exciting solutions. One example is Patient Synopsis, which helps radiologists better understand patient data.
