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The Imperative of Smarter Clinical Information Systems

How AI agents and openEHR Can Lift Healthcare Out of Its Purgatory

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Gordon Mickel
Apr 22, 2025
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Illustration of two overwhelmed clinicians buried under flying paperwork; overlaid callouts show ‘114 min admin per doctor’, ‘74 % burnout risk’, and ‘16–19 % avoidable waste’, highlighting the crushing weight of administrative burden in hospitals

TL;DR - Hospitals don’t need more bolt‑on AI dashboards; they need to stop spending human hours transcribing voice notes, scanned referrals, and faxes into databases. Multimodal AI can now structure any input, and openEHR turns that structure into lasting, shareable knowledge. The combo wipes out form fatigue, bridges wildly different local workflows, a…

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