Emergency departments are crowded for a lot of reasons, but one small bottleneck happens before the physician even walks into the room.
We often start with a blank slate. The patient has a story, the clinician needs that story, and the waiting room is just sitting there as unused time. A new pediatric ED pilot study tested whether ChatGPT could collect a patient’s history in the waiting room and turn it into a usable HPI for clinicians.
The results were promising, but the bigger question is whether this can actually fit into ED workflows without creating more work for nurses, patients, or physicians…
Full breakdown in my latest Huddle+ article here.
