How Comprehend PT Takes Clinical Notes Out of Physical Therapists’ Hands

Physical therapists have unique needs for an ambient clinical voice solution. They are constantly walking about the floor, chatting with different patients and watching how many reps and sets they do. Comprehend PT uniquely meets the PT’s needs and allows the therapist to create notes in their particular tone and style just by speaking while they work. The inputs are called “mini brain dumps” by CEO Jake Michalski.

In this video, Michalski takes us in our imagination to a PT setting. The therapist carries a phone in their pocket, speaking whenever a patient completes an exercise. Both intakes (longer and more detailed) and routine PT visits are handle. The AI can also recognize and filter out idle chat that PTs and patients often have about vacations, children, and so forth.

Comprehend PT is deeply integrated into the EHR, a task made easier because nine EHRs cover 80% of PT. Not only are notes stored automatically in the EHR, but the app can extract patient data and context from the EHR to inform note taking.

Additionally, the system analyzes previous notes from each therapist in order to reproduce that individual’s tone and style. Developers find, when the therapist corrects notes, that the AI is 95% accurate.

The app is also used by some chiropractors and occupational therapists. Watch the video for more details.

Learn more about Comprehend PT: https://comprehendpt.ai/

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About the author

Andy Oram

Andy is a writer and editor in the computer field. His editorial projects have ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. A correspondent for Healthcare IT Today, Andy also writes often on policy issues related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM (Brussels), DebConf, and LibrePlanet. Andy participates in the Association for Computing Machinery's policy organization, named USTPC, and is on the editorial board of the Linux Professional Institute.

   

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