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IBM Watson Health Imaging's Patient Synopsis - an AI-enabled, cloud-based tool trained by radiologists to help them more easily extricate electronic health record (EHR) data - made its debut at Kentucky-based health system Hardin Memorial Health.
Business Insider IntelligenceIBM Watson introduced Patient Synopsis - which can be integrated into existing EHR systems - in July 2018 as a means of tackling the pervasive, time-consuming issue of having to sift through patient EHRs to find relevant data.
Here's what it means: AI-enabled programs that help parse through data have the potential to minimize physicians' headaches with EHRs and ultimately slash costs.The bigger picture: Patient Synopsis advances IBM's health play, but it won't come without obstacles.
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