Rochester, Minn. —
Preparing to meet with a patient can require Mayo Clinic internal medicine physician Dr. Alexander Ryu to sort through dozens, or even hundreds, of pages of medical records.
Many patients visit the renowned clinic looking for a third or fourth opinion, carting with them unsorted documents from external health systems. A new artificial intelligence tool is helping clinicians parse through records faster — generating relevant patient summaries, organizing documents in chronological order and making them easier to search.
Ryu said the tool, called Record Time, can save him between five and 30 minutes of preparation per visit, depending on the complexity of the case. That’s time he can instead spend face-to-face with the patient. And Record Time helps ensure that he doesn’t miss important details that might be buried in the file that could drive treatment and testing recommendations.
“We receive a huge volume of these records, tens of millions of pages every year, and we needed a way to find important information in that,” said Ryu, who also serves as vice chair of innovation for the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine.
