Improving Doctor-Patient Interaction with ML-Enabled Clinical Note Taking

While the majority of hospital appointments in the ambulatory setting as well as General Practitioners use Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, these are poorly designed for use during patient encounters. The introduction of EHRs in hospitals is often met with resistance from clinicians, due to the increase in administrative burden: with EHRs many specialists spend more time documenting in EHR systems than on patient interaction. We believe that the solution is smarter bedside technology that can free up