Hands Free Automatic Clinical Care Documentation: Opportunities for Motion Sensors and Cameras

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Electronic care documentation continues to represent a significant time expense in many clinical environments. The fundamental challenge centers around the need to either (i) pause from the provision of care to document clinical activities, or (ii) document care after the encounter. This serial workflow prevents simultaneous care and documentation, which can result in extensive physician frustration, errors in documentation and clinical errors. As a result, medical scribes are increasingly being used in high throughput clinical areas to reduce the documentation burden on clinicians. However, the addition of personnel to create documentation is resource intensive. …