The medico-legal industry intersects at a crucial juncture of healthcare and law. Its strict adherence to ethical and regulatory standards necessitates acute accuracy and dependability in organizing medical records. However, this feat is only possible by aptly using technologies like AI and ML.
Here are the most prevalent challenges observed by businesses with the manual processing of customer records and building a technology-driven solution.
Identifying and extracting relevant patient data from voluminous medical records is a lengthy process.
Inefficient use of valuable resources and efforts that could be redirected towards more critical tasks.
Insufficient technological integration hinders easy access to patient records.
Poorly indexed and categorized patient records create significant obstacles in finding necessary information.
Building an in-house development team is expensive and doesn't guarantee successful project completion.
Adhering to regulations like HIPAA adds complexity to medical record organization and management.
Finding qualified professionals to develop a specialized AI-based data summarization solution is difficult.
Handling the vast and ever-growing volume of medical records requires a solution that can scale efficiently and deliver fast, accurate results.
Maruti Techlabs recognized the pressing need to address the medico-legal industry's challenges in organizing medical records. To meet this need, we designed an innovative Medical Record Summarization tool, MedBrief, using advanced AI and machine learning technologies. This tool accurately extracts and organizes information such as diagnoses, treatments, and patient histories from thousands of documents, employing deep learning and semantics.
MedBrief operates through four workflow stages: Data Collection and Annotation, Document Classification, Data Extraction, and Summarization. It converts documents into editable text files using OCR and image analysis algorithms. AI and ML technologies then process and summarize the medical documents, flag discrepancies, highlight essential data points, and provide hyperlinks to source documents. This tool boosts efficiency, reduces manual work, and enhances accuracy while adhering to HIPAA regulations, greatly benefiting medico-legal companies.
Medical records often play a vital role in legal cases like personal injury or medical malpractice. Medical record summarization tools can streamline the process of identifying and extracting relevant patient data from extensive records. This saves significant time and effort for legal professionals, allowing them to focus on case strategy.
Medical record retrieval and review can be a time-consuming bottleneck in insurance claims processing. Summarization tools expedite this by extracting key information and presenting it in a structured format. It speeds up and improves claims management, reduces administrative burden and costs, and enhances customer satisfaction.
Physicians spend significant time sifting through bulky medical records to get a holistic view of a patient's history. Our tool can condense these records into concise reports, highlighting key details like diagnoses, prior medications, and allergies. It allows doctors to quickly learn a patient's history and make informed decisions, improving patient care.
Communication and information sharing are vital when multiple healthcare providers are involved in patient care. Summarization tools generate consistent and easy-to-understand briefs that can be shared between doctors, nurses, and specialists. This improves care coordination, reduces errors, and ensures everyone is on the same page.
A leading healthcare provider partnered with Maruti Techlabs to automate the processing of patient diagnosis letters using AI and NLP. The solution streamlined data extraction and classification, reducing processing time by 87% and increasing accuracy to 93%. By minimizing manual work, the data team was reduced from 12 to just 2 people per hospital, significantly improving the efficiency of patient record management and overall decision-making in the healthcare platform.