by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR
Moravec’s Paradox is: the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning (which is high-level in humans) requires very little computation, but sensorimotor skills (comparatively low-level in humans)...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR
Should we refer to a patient’s digital medical records as their Electronic Medical Record (EHR) or their Electronic Medical Record (EMR)? Well, according to HealthIT.gov , part of “The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)” which...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, EHR
If, as a citizen, you knew every phone call you made was being recorded, analyzed and stored using artificial intelligence by your government, would it change what you say on the phone? Of course, it would. So if, as a physician, every word of your conversation with a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR
On the physician members-only social media website Doximity there is a recent post entitled “It’s Wrong for Doctors To Retire Early”. Not unexpectedly, there is an overwhelming response by the physician commenters that they should be free to retire whenever the heck...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, EHR, Natural Language Processing
80%. I run across this number all the time in healthcare articles about the potential use of artificial intelligence within healthcare. It is the percentage of “unstructured” data contained in electronic health records (EHRs) – data which is prime real estate...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, EHR
Here’s an interesting article in Nature which was published in May 2018 that should be on the radar of any physician interested in Artificial Intelligence: “Scalable and accurate deep learning with electronic health records” This study, by analyzing the...
