Working smarter, not harder: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots to write clinical documents
Kirstin Berry1 1Hunter New England Local Health District, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
Abstract
In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) has advanced significantly, and it has become possible to generate high-quality text with the help of Artificial Intelligence bots (AI) and GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer). In this abstract, we propose using ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, to generate medication-related documents for hospitals.
Medication-related documents are critical for ensuring patient safety and continuity of care. However, creating these documents can be time-consuming and error-prone, particularly when multiple clinicians are involved. ChatGPT can provide a solution by generating accurate and comprehensive medication-related documents quickly and efficiently.
In fact, an AI chat bot wrote the entire background section above using one sentence command: “write a 250 word conference submission abstract on using ChatGPT to write medication related documents for hospitals.”
We assessed the quality of the generated documents in terms of accuracy, completeness, and readability.
We have demonstrated the feasibility of using AI chat bots to generate medication-related documents such as Policy Compliance Procedures for the use of patients own epinephrine auto injectors in hospital, and safe storage of medication on resuscitation trolleys in ICU.
A chat bot was also used to quickly and efficiently write HTML code for an iron infusion dose calculator which was uploaded onto the hospital intranet and was usable within 15-minutes of identifying the need for an interactive calculator. In this case, the AI made a multiplication error, which resulted in a 2.5 times overdose, therefore the need for a competent clinician is required to review the output.
Biography
Kirstin is the Medication Safety and Quality Manager for HNE Health and is the district clinical lead for Medication Safety Standard. Kirstin has previously worked as Director of Pharmacy at Mount Isa Hospital and Deputy Director of Pharmacy at the John Hunter Hospital. She has a special interest in IT and rural and remote healthcare.