Ok so my mind was blown 👀😳🙈 ! I always hoped that someday creating clinical notes & summaries will be automated, clinically intelligent & free up more time for actual patient care. Current EMRs lack this or create really onerous, boring ones that miss a clinical storyline. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) research & startups are now everywhere, and it’s getting freakishly good – for e.g. an A.I. program could detect a patient’s race from radiographic images that humans couldn’t do or know how. Since the A.I. program ChatGPT is the flavor of the year 2023, I been playing with it from the clinical standpoint. I asked it to come up with a detailed discharge summary for a scenario where I gave my buddy Dr. Nate Miller a little Sepsis, Cellulitis & Acute Kidney Injury. This is what the program quickly spit out (Needless to say Dr. Miller wasn’t happy about the age – but glad the gender was right 😁 )
It even made up it’s own clinical presentation, treatment and advice/plan based on common clinical findings.
Is it pretty good ? Yes !!! Is it accurate ? Not quite ( it threw in a pneumonia for some reason and IV fluids and diuretics both, but the program learns and will get better in time), but could I use this to copy-paste-edit and make quick work of a discharge summary of a real patient in real life ? Absolutely !!!! EMRs and dictation softwares will increasingly incorporate this tech and hopefully automate notes for us more effectively and creatively.
