Using Electronic Health Records for better Emergency Care – Nicolas Pielawski

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are digital records of health information. They contain all the information you’d find in a paper chart, and include a patient’s medical history, diagnoses, medications, blood test results, and vitals. This information constitutes a great wealth of data that can be used to improve patient care. We are developing an AI system that uses EHR data to reduce waiting times at the Emergency Department (ED) and improve the quality of care. The system uses a patient’s full medical history to predict how urgent their condition is and which blood tests to order. This information can be used to prioritize patients and ensure that the most urgent cases are treated first. Proper calibration and fairness of the models needs to be assessed to mitigate biases and risks for the patients.