This App Listens In And Fills Out Paperwork So Doctors Can Focus On Patients

Since the shift to electronic health records (EHRs) in the United States accelerated a decade ago, the day-to-day impact on doctors is staggering. To keep records current and useful, physicians have to ensure all records of patient interactions get recorded, meaning that a large chunk of their day is spent staring at a screen rather than taking care of their patients. Recent studies show that doctors may spend as much as half of their work day filling out the records of their interactions with patients.

“In an ideal world, physicians would just interact with patients,” Saykara founder and CEO Harjinder Sandhu told Forbes. “That’s what they want to do. They don’t want to type notes.”

His Seattle-based company’s solution is an app that records a doctor’s interactions with patients, using AI and machine learning to hone in on key points of the doctor’s side of the conversation and appropriately document on the EHR, leaving the doctor free to focus on the patient. A new update to Saykara software passively records in the office without requiring activation, making operation even easier for doctors, who previously had to start recordings manually. 

The full Forbes article can be viewed at this link.