Health Note Updates the Tired Old Patient Questionnaire

This article discusses the service provided by Health Note, which illustrates the capabilities of modern patient interaction using AI and integration with the EHR.
Even a standard questionnaire can advance us five minutes into a normal fifteen-minute interview. But Health Note can do much better. According to chief technical officer Aaron Rau, their service goes far beyond asking the conventional questions.
Health Note digs into the EHR, using AI, and combines the information found with its own medical knowledge to ask the questions a doctor would normally ask during a visit. “When did the pain start? Has it gotten better or worse, and what did you do that affected it?”
In addition to clinical information, Health Note can assemble information about social determinants of health from the EHR and the patient, using EHR data to create specific questions relevant to each patient. Besides taking data from structured fields, Health Note is testing the use of NLP on doctors prior’ notes to improve the accuracy and relevancy of questionnaires. A web-based app allows the patient to answer the questionnaire.
Dr. Hyung Kim, urology department chair at Cedars Sinai, says, “By enabling physicians to know about health problems ahead of a visit, Health Note promotes trust and can impress the patient. It also saves three to four minutes per encounter.”
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Aaron Rau Cedars-Sinai Digital Front Door EHR Integration Health Note Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare LLMs Hyung Kim Source Type: blogs