Healthcare Organization Implements OpenAI’s GPT-4 for Medical Record Writing.

Carbon Health, a US healthcare chain, has introduced an AI tool that automatically generates medical records based on conversations between physicians and their patients. Dubbed Carby, the tool is integrated directly into the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system and uses OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-4, to produce notes summarizing important information gathered in the consultation. The AI model requires an audio recording of the patient consultation, which is passed to Amazon’s AWS Transcribe Medical cloud service to convert speech to text. The tool produces consultation summaries in four minutes, compared to 16 minutes consumed by doctors working alone, enabling clinics to treat more patients. Carbon Health said the model is already supporting over 130 clinics, and a clinic testing the tool in San Francisco reportedly saw a 30% increase in the number of patients it could treat. Physicians must verify the AI-generated text as the generative AI models can often produce errors, but 88% of the verbiage can be accepted without edits, according to Carbon Health.