Artificial Intelligence (AI) also called machine intelligence is demonstrated by machines and is used to reduce the efforts of humans, in other words, natural intelligence as displayed by humans. Many healthcare providers & institutions have now shifted from the conventional style of clinical documentation to a documentation process that is initiated by AI. It helps the physician with accurate decision making, but the real promise of this in healthcare is to enhance physician’s work and provide the best possible patient care. The objective is only to boost the documentation process and not to replace the care team.
Almost about 45 percent of healthcare institutions have already started using AI in different forms. Not only that but many hospitals these days are looking forward to applying this technology to coding and also for the improvement of clinical documentation. Machine intelligence increases speed, improves accuracy and the efficiency of coders. Along with these, this technology will be enhancing the experience of care, reduce cost and create a joyful work environment for the physicians. A study revealed that about ninety-three percent of respondents think, machine intelligence helps in improving outcomes along with revenue integrity.
We now talk in detail about the 3 ways in which AI can improve clinical documentation.
Ø Point-of-care learning: As and when clinical questions arise, machine intelligence has the potential to deliver the required information about it to the physicians. Many times doctors waste their time scanning through documents that are irrelevant to their practices or in reviewing things which they already know. This technology will help in personalizing the content that will be needed by physicians and will also help analyze data, online search queries, and self-completed assessments.
Ø Healthcare Documentation: Using machine intelligence can be considered to be of the most promising healthcare documentation application of technology. They help in featuring programs that can analyze doctor's free-text narrative, extract and insert relevant information to the structured data field.
Ø Quality reporting: Doctors have to spend hours dealing with quality reporting. Machine intelligence can help doctors from the pain of manual data-collection process by reviewing the clinical documentation and extract information to fill up the missing data field. By making doctors free from this data-collection process machine intelligence keeps the ability to provide high-quality care and improve the patient-doctor relationship.
Overall, almost about ninety percent of healthcare institutions surveyed informed that costs fell by more than half within years of implementing machine intelligence. The quality of clinical documentation has increased to a great extent and these organizations have also reported better transcription processes as well as better dictation transparency. With the healthcare industry becoming more complex each day, implementing AI will be the best way to help doctors with a lot of their tasks, reduce their burden and let them focus more on their patients
Comments