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Transforming pediatric care at Shriners with Azure OpenAI

Transforming pediatric care at Shriners with Azure OpenAI

Transforming pediatric care at Shriners with Azure OpenAI

How an interactive GenAI solution improved care with instant access to clinical notes

How an interactive GenAI solution improved care with instant access to clinical notes

Instant info retrieval

Secure Azure environment

Interactive GenAI solution

Faster clinical decisions

The challenge

Overcoming cumbersome manual data retrieval for pediatric care

Shriners Childrens Hospital had a problem with slow, manual processes for accessing historical clinical notes. The hospitals legacy systems couldnt harness large volumes of structured and unstructured data effectively. Physicians and researchers struggled to access patient data timeously, creating efficiency bottlenecks that negatively impacted the quality of patient care.

Key challenges

  • Time-consuming and ineffective manual searches

  • Limited insight into vast unstructured data

  • Inefficient processes reduced clinician productivity

  • Delayed care decisions negatively impacted patient outcomes

The solution

Integrating Azure OpenAI for interactive clinical notes

Interactive AI access

Azure OpenAI Q&A

Real-time user queries

Instant data retrieval

Secure Azure platform

Azure Blob Storage

CI/CD deployment pipelines

Secure & scalable landing zone

Implementation approach

1

Establishing foundations

  • Azure environment setup

  • Secure data ingestion

  • Pipeline automation

2

Bot development

  • Gen AI integration

  • Customized Q&A flow

  • Physician-friendly UI

3

Rapid adoption

  • User training

  • Immediate value

  • Ongoing optimization

The impact

Enhancing pediatric care through superior data accessibility

Instant retrieval

Real-time data access

  • Less manual effort

  • Quicker diagnostic procedures

  • Improved physician workflow

Enhanced care

Proactive management

  • Streamlined analysis

  • Improved treatment planning

  • Better patient outcomes

Flexible infrastructure

Enterprise-grade security

  • Automated resource scaling

  • Comprehensive encryption

  • Compliance monitoring

Looking ahead

Unlocking new capabilities

  • AI-powered advanced analytics

Expanding clinical adoption

  • Cross-departmental data sharing

User-driven upgrades

  • Evolving tools through user feedback