Five Uses for AI Medical Scribes
Artificial intelligence (AI) medical scribeskeywords have shown incredible promise with the growth of AI technology over the last several years. With the ability to listen, transcribe, and generate advanced clinical notes, physicians have found various ways, within and after clinic hours, to use their advanced AI medical scribes to optimize their busy schedules.
- Quickly document back-to-back office visits
For providers seeing patient after patient in short intervals with mere minutes to seconds between, manually entering every detail of each encounter in the electronic health record (EHR) is a near impossible task.
An AI scribe allows these bustling providers to press record at the beginning of each encounter and have an EHR-ready note draft ready for their review by the time they wish the patient a good day.
The AI generated clinical note will also include a dictation summary of the physician’s assessment, treatment plan, and next steps.
- Summarizing complex consultations
On the other end of the spectrum, providers that regularly perform 45 to 60 minute, in-depth consults face the overwhelming task of documenting and summarizing an immense amount of detail.
Oftentimes, these consults include understanding a patient's complex medical histories and highly customized treatment plans.
All of this, as well as the chief complaints, medications, allergies, and more, can be captured and summarized in real time by the AI scribe.
This frees the provider’s attention from documentation, so it can be put towards connecting and decision making with the patient.
- Sharing summaries with care teams and patients
Because clinical notes and summaries can be completed in a near instant, providers can share this information with patients and care teams before the patient even walks out the door and/or quickly after.
This opens up the opportunity for physicians and patients to align and creates a faster, more fluid stream of communication for more informed clinical decision making.
For care teams, this also means they do not have to wait around for physicians to complete their charting at the end of the day to take action on arranging next steps for care plans.
- Fast, accurate dictation
For the physicians who speak far faster than they type, an AI medical scribe allows them to dictate their charting with the patient present or after the office visit.
Even if a provider tells the scribe everything out of order and includes rouge details, it will still generate a succinct and perfectly organized note draft.
- Remembering everything
It may seem like overkill to capture every single word, but for some fields, such as psychiatry, it is important to record exactly what a patient says.
With AI scribes, providers are able to retroactively go into conversation transcripts and search keywords or phrases to better understand a patient’s condition and make more informed treatment decisions.
Quadrant Health’s AI-driven medical scribe transcribes encounters in real time making documentation more accurate and efficient. Contact us and request a demo here.