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ReviewFrontiers in digital health2024

Prospects for AI clinical summarization to reduce the burden of patient chart review.

Chanseo Lee, Kimon A Vogt, Sonu Kumar

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Review in Frontiers in digital health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Chanseo LeeDepartment of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Kimon A VogtSporo Health, Boston, MA, United States.
Sonu KumarSporo Health, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective summarization of unstructured patient data in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for accurate diagnosis and efficient patient care, yet clinicians often struggle with information overload and time constraints. This review dives into recent literature and case studies on both the significant impacts and outstanding issues of patient chart review on communications, diagnostics, and management. It also discusses recent efforts to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into clinical summarization tasks, and its transformative impact on the clinician's potential, including but not limited to reductions of administrative burden and improved patient-centered care. Furthermore, it takes into account the numerous ethical challenges associated with integrating AI into clinical workflow, including biases, data privacy, and cybersecurity.

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artificial intelligenceclinical summarizationcybersecuritydata privacyelectronic health recordsLLMpatient chart review

Identifiers

PMID39575412
PMCPMC11578995

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