AI EHR Overlay for In-Workflow ACO Patient Insights
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic health record (EHR) systems are not seamlessly integrated with Accountable Care Organization (ACO) platforms, leading to separate applications that do not enhance the doctor's experience within the EHR system, limiting the ability to provide coordinated and cost-effective patient care.
Innovation Solution
An AI overlay is implemented to electronically access EHR systems, apply AI models for interpreting content, and generate insights by accessing secondary systems, providing auxiliary information such as potential diagnoses and suggested care actions directly within the EHR interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate ACO application is used alongside EHR system, then ACO functionality is provided, but integration with EHR workflow is poor and user experience is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the ACO application functionality directly into the EHR system interface by injecting AI overlay code into the EHR's web page. This combination allows ACO features (patient insights, care coordination tools) to be accessed within the existing EHR workflow without requiring separate application windows, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The injected AI overlay code serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides ACO-specific patient insights, maintains compatibility with various EHR interfaces, and enables care coordination capabilities all within a single integrated interface. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making one system serve both ACO and EHR workflow needs.
2Ease of operation
If AI overlay is injected into EHR web page, then seamless integration is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses an intermediary approach by injecting lightweight AI overlay code into the existing EHR web page rather than fundamentally restructuring the EHR system. This intermediary layer provides ACO functionality and AI capabilities without requiring complex system-wide changes, thereby achieving seamless integration while minimizing the increase in system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The AI overlay functionality is nested within the existing EHR web page structure. The overlay code is embedded as a layer within the EHR interface, allowing ACO features to be contained within the EHR workflow without requiring the EHR system itself to become more complex. This nesting approach maintains simplicity while achieving integration.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the inventive concepts involve a system and a method that include or use an AI overlay that applies models to interpret content from an electronic health record (EHR) display and generate insights related to the displayed EHR. Healthcare practices access an EHR system comprising a plurality of patient EHRs. The practice also has access to an application linked to at least one secondary source of patient information, such as an accountable care organization (ACO) application. The AI overlay implements vision or image-based processing of a displayed patient EHR to generate the insights from the secondary source of patient information, such as a summary of relevant patient data created since the patient's last visit to the practice (e.g., payer claims, pharmacy and lab information, admission, discharge and transfer events), and to provide auxiliary information, such as potential diagnosis and/or suggested care actions, within the screen displaying the EHR.