Wrong-patient errors — which occur when a provider means to place an order for one patient but places it for another by mistake — happen rarely, less than 1% of the time, Dr. Hojjat Salmasian ...

The patient’s chart showed a history of “PE,” so an ER physician ordered a CT scan to rule out recurrence of a “pulmonary embolism,” a blood clot in the lungs.

In the real world, ordering medical tests costs money, so Microsoft tracked the tests that the AI system and human doctors ordered to see which method could get it done more cheaply. Not only did ...

Electronic health records (EHRs) have been mainly used to analyze bottlenecks in care processes of outpatient oncology clinics. However, EHR data lead to some limitations in understanding patient flow ...

An extensive EHR log study found that ambulatory doctors spend about 16 minutes per patient encounter using the electronic health record, with roughly one-third of that time (~5 minutes per visit ...