A cardiologist with a background in medical technology, computer science, and artificial intelligence has launched a product designed to aid legal professionals and physician expert witnesses in the arduous task of reviewing and analyzing medical records. The product,
Quench SmartChart, leverages generative AI to streamline the medico-legal review process, allowing users to quickly extract, summarize, and create chronologies from extensive, disorganized PDFs of medical records.
Quench SmartChart also features a natural language chat tool called AskQuench, enabling users to interact with and interrogate records to find essential insights. The company has initiated a waitlist for early access to the product prior to its formal launch.
A Time-Consuming Process
Michael Lesh, the founder and CEO of the company, is both a seasoned cardiologist and adjunct professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Transitioning from practicing medicine, Lesh has gained experience as a medical device entrepreneur. His shift towards digital health led to the exploration of large language models to streamline the workflows of physicians reviewing medical records.
Realizing that the process for reviewing medical records in legal contexts remained antiquated despite digitization, Lesh and his team of physicians and data scientists adapted their AI engineering to develop Quench SmartChart. The AI used is proprietary and leverages domain knowledge in healthcare, differentiating it from general AI like ChatGPT.
Using SmartChart
To utilize Quench SmartChart, users start by uploading medical records in various formats, such as PDFs, Word, or text. The system creates a case chronology, presenting key events in the patient’s medical history like office visits and tests. These events link directly to the specific records, enabling contextual review of the original documents.
A forthcoming version will include a visual timeline that users can zoom into for a focused review. The AskQuench chat tool can answer inquiries about the documents, providing detailed insights and hyperlinking to the supporting source documents.
A soon-to-be-added feature will allow the generation of detailed reports covering various aspects such as the injury history, the patient’s previous medical records, and current symptoms. Future versions will also identify missing records critical to the case and will help incorporate pertinent medical literature into reports.
Opening the Waitlist
Michael Lesh initially focused on recruiting physicians to ensure SmartChart meets their requirements. As the product moves into its invitation-only phase, it aims to expand to include legal professionals as well. The waitlist is currently open for those interested in early access, and during this phase, users will not be charged for the service.
SmartChart promises significant time savings by enabling tasks that previously took hours or even days to be completed in a fraction of the time. This efficiency improvement can substantially impact productivity for both attorneys and physicians dealing with medical records.
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