Physicians, nurses and other clinicians at Stanford Health Care are now able to interact directly with electronic health records, via a new software tool known as ChatEHR.

WHY IT MATTERS

The tool, built by data scientists at Stanford Medicine, is being piloted as a way to help clinicians engage more seamlessly with their EHRs, as reported this past week in a Stanford news item , and to help alleviate administrative burden by allowing them to ask questions about their patients' medical histories.

The large language model (LLM)-based tool, similar to OpenAI's GPT-4, can also help automate the summarization of patient charts, among other capabilities. ChatEHR uses information from an individual's health records to provide its response.

The technology has been in the works for the past t

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