04/26/2024    Lawrence Kosova, DPM

EMR /EHR Recommendations (PM News Subscriber)

The question you are asking is an excellent one
and will be answered by the end users/doctors.

Just so you know, I have beta tested 5 products in
the AI scribe world and I am on the medical
advisory board for HeidiHealth. This is a free AI
scribe with multispecialty language models
including podiatry, so you can get your SOAP and
H&P notes done efficiently. All the EMR companies
I have talked with, including the large players
like Epic and Athena are beta testing solutions
now.

These will be profit centers for the EMR
companies. So whatever product you are currently
using you should be asking what EMR companies are
they currently in discussions with for integration
and what is their projected timelines. I am
perfectly happy right now being about 98% finished
with my chart note when I walked out of the
patient room. I then spend a few minutes to review
the chart note and make some edits then copy and
paste into my EHR. As you might be finding out,
this is such a time saver and I end up with more
comprehensive notes that I could never get from
using a Dragon speech product.

So what will you do when the product you are
currently using is better than the one the EMR is
suggesting? Many companies are allowing multiple
AI Scribe companies to do some sort of
integration/testing. I just know from experience
with speech integrations with EMR in the past that
there are different levels of effectiveness.

I heard some companies are going to use a product
I decided against since it was just unusable in a
live clinic situation. Price and not effectiveness
might be their deciding factor. I read a quote
from the AMA the other day and a patient that is a
teacher told me something similar also from their
association. "AI won't replace doctors. But
doctors that don't use AI might be replaced". I
thought that was very telling ass to where things
are heading.

Lawrence Kosova, DPM, Naperville, IL

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