Clinicians are flooded with documentation-related work, sifting large amounts of patient data before they can even begin writing notes. Cedars-Sinai believes its new partnership with respect may help give overworked doctors a lifeline.
This month, the Los Angeles-based health system launched Reach's documentation platform in two of its hospitals. The platform reviews and organizes data from patients’ charts, provides diagnostic insights, and produces draft clinical notes before physician visits.
By rapidly synthesizing patient data and drafting notes, Inch’s technology aims to reduce the time and mental effort doctors spend on documents, giving them more time to focus on clinical decision-making.
Shaun Miller, chief health informatics officer at the health system, said Cedars-Sinai is currently marketing technology and teaching methods, starting with high batches of doctors in the internal medicine field.
He noted that the Accelerator Program, which first passed the health system in 2017, was related to aspects of Cedars-Sinai, which was a startup that was an early player.
“We've been working with them for a while and we know they build products from scratch with clinicians at the center,” Miller said.
Cedar-Sinai is also an investor in the startup, whose venture capital division contributed to Right’s $61 million Series B financing investment last year.
Miller notes that unlike document tools that focus primarily on the brain listening to patient conversations, it is also viewed as an attack on patient charts and produces more comprehensive notes.
He added that compared with the startups in hospitals, a powerful hospital care tool has been developed that primarily serves outpatient settings.
“We see a lot of AI in the outpatient space, but there aren't as many people in the hospital space. Patients are complex. When they are admitted, there is a lot of data that needs to be collected and brought together in a very reliable way,” Miller explained.
By deploying respectful technology, Cedars-Sinai’s goal is to reduce the heavy cognitive load that hospital administrators face when managing complex patient charts. The main goal is to reduce the documentation and cognitive burden and make acute care more effective, mental taxation, Miller said.
With the success of the health system, he said, it will focus primarily on clinician satisfaction and how they fit the technology into their daily work.
Ultimately, hopefully this will provide hospital doctors with more breathing space to focus on patients rather than administrative chores.
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