If it’s not here yet, then it’s just a matter of time. I think the real question is whether a company trains it on oncology specifically, or if it’s a general purpose AI they market to all specialties. The latter might not perform as well.
This is what I’m referring to. If Epic is training it on all physician notes, it might not do well for onc specifically. I hope they have specialty-specific models for generating summaries so it doesn’t end up bloated with extraneous information.
Epic did. However, intial product had a limited word count look back. So if you had these massive bloated garbage notes, its summary wasn't great. Word count look back has been increased.
ChatGPT will compose letters for you with the appropriate prompt. Unless you have a local HIPAA-compliant version, you should not enter patient information into the public ChatGPT. You can say something like "write an insurance appeal letter for IMRT in a patient with left sided breast cancer". It will give you a generic letter, which generally isn't bad. If nothing else its a reasonable starting draft.
some insurance appeals are a formality, some are are actually read and evaluated by radiation oncologists. AI-generated letters are easy to spot and thus often are a detriment to the patient
They are closing ours in two weeks, 2 years after our transition to epic. I have my epic stats compared to the rest of the dept and I estimate I save at least one hour a week. To say I am upset is an understatement. Have been looking at AI solutions on the side but hard with device side processing for privacy.
If you are good with prompt engineering, you won't have to edit and it looks like any other letter. I've done this dozens of times, seems to work just fine.
Any suggested prompts?
@OTN @BobbyHeenan you guys still have old school transcription. Very nice. I'm definitely slower now that we have dragon, templates help but still not the same, agree
Yep, old school transcription is the best
