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CHICAGO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Northwestern Medicine researchers in Chicago say their virtual assistant for physicians -- software that alerts the doctor when a patient's care is amiss.
Lead author Dr. Stephen Persell, an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, says busy doctors can miss important details about a patient's care during an office examination.
The system provides an unobtrusive yellow light on the side of a doctor's computer, which alerts him or her to a message that something is awry with a patient's care. For example, when the doctor clicks on the light, it may point out that the patient, who has congestive heart failure, hasn't gotten the recommended pneumonia vaccine or was taken off beta-blockers -- medication for heart failure -- during a recent hospitalization and needs to start them again.
"The pieces of this system aren't new, but putting them together in a comprehensive way is new," Persell says in a statement. "If you put these things together in a smart way, then electronic health records are powerful tools for quality of care."
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