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PRE-VISIT: AI Intake + Consent Collection by AI Nurse Copilot




DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot is changing the way healthcare providers manage patient care. This digital assistant helps with pre-charting by interacting directly with patients, making the process faster and more personalized. Key features include customizable templates, multi-language support, and seamless integration with electronic health record (EHR) systems. This guide explores how the AI Nurse Copilot enhances patient care and streamlines healthcare workflows.

Key Takeaways

  • DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot aids in pre-charting by interacting with patients, making the process faster and more personalized.


  • The system offers customizable templates and conditional questioning to collect accurate patient data.


  • The AI Nurse Copilot supports multiple languages and customizable welcome messages, improving patient experience.


  • Ensuring security and compliance is paramount, as the platform adheres completely to HIPAA and PIPEDA regulations. Additionally, you have the option to include your own HIPAA consent form that the patient must accept before engaging in a chat with the AI Nurse Copilot.


Revolutionizing Pre-Charting with AI Nurse Copilot

Streamlining Patient Interactions

Imagine having a personal assistant who can anticipate every need before a meeting, organizing all the necessary documents, scheduling appointments, preparing personalized messages, and even creating a pre-chart ready for review before the encounter. This assistant ensures everything is ready, so you can focus solely on what matters most—your patients. DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot does just that, making patient interactions smoother and more efficient.

Customizable Templates for Personalized Care

With DeepCura, you can create highly customizable templates tailored to your specific needs. These templates allow you to gather all the necessary information from patients in a structured manner. You can even add your clinic's logo to make the experience more personalized. This feature ensures that every patient receives care that is both consistent and personalized.

Conditional Questioning for Accurate Data Collection

The AI Nurse Copilot uses conditional questioning to gather accurate data from patients. This means that the AI will ask follow-up questions based on the patient's previous answers, ensuring that all relevant information is collected. This method reduces the risk of missing important details and improves the overall quality of the data collected.

Automated Clinical Note Generation

A key highlight is the automatic creation of clinical notes. The AI Nurse Copilot is capable of producing a note, or any form of clinical documentation, using your chosen template derived from the dialogue it had with the patient. This functionality is especially beneficial for busy healthcare professionals who want to prioritize patient care over administrative tasks. This innovative approach not only enhances efficiency but also significantly improves the accuracy of clinical documentation, allowing healthcare providers to focus on delivering high-quality patient care.

Enhancing Patient Experience with AI Nurse Copilot

Multi-Language Support

The AI Nurse Copilot offers multi-language support, making it easier for patients from diverse backgrounds to communicate effectively. This feature ensures that language barriers do not hinder the quality of care. Patients are able to engage with the AI in their chosen language, improving their comfort and comprehension during medical consultations. Additionally, you can have the AI Nurse create a note based on the discussion with your patient in your own preferred language.

Customizable Welcome Messages

When patients first interact with the AI Nurse Copilot, they are greeted with a customizable welcome message. Providers can tailor these messages to reflect their unique branding and provide specific instructions or information. This personalized touch helps in creating a warm and welcoming environment for patients right from the start.

HIPAA Consent Forms Integration

The AI Nurse Copilot seamlessly integrates HIPAA consent forms into the patient interaction process. Patients can easily review and agree to these forms digitally, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. This integration simplifies the administrative process, allowing healthcare providers to focus more on patient care.

Advanced Features for Healthcare Providers

Perform Scoring Tests or Assessments with the AI Nurse Copilot

DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot can perform scoring tests or evaluations on your behalf. As a psychiatrist, you might send the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) assessment to your patient's parents a few days before their appointment. As a geriatric healthcare provider, you could share the Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living with your patient or their caregiver. You could even have the AI Nurse Copilot compute the score for you and provide your patient with details explaining their score or the necessity of the test in the first place. These are merely a few of the numerous examples of what you can accomplish; ultimately, you can have the AI gather any information you need, further saving your time.

Incorporating Your Own Logo to Help Your Patients Feel Comfortable

It's well-known that certain patients may hesitate to share their personal information with AI, and the fact that the AI they are engaging with appears unrelated to their doctor only exacerbates this concern. This is why we allow you to incorporate your own logo into the AI nurse interaction, helping to reassure your patients and enhance the overall personalization of the experience.

Automated Patient Task Management

The platform's automated patient task management system creates and sorts all your cumulative and automated patient tasks by tag, deadline, status, and patient order. This ensures that healthcare providers never forget to follow up on a referral or submit a refill. The system is designed to streamline workflows and reduce administrative burdens.

Security and Compliance

Ensuring the security and compliance of patient data is paramount in healthcare. DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot is designed with robust measures to meet these critical needs.

HIPAA and PIPEDA Compliance

DeepCura adheres to stringent HIPAA and PIPEDA compliance standards, ensuring that all patient data is handled with the utmost care and confidentiality. This compliance is crucial for maintaining trust and legal adherence in healthcare settings.

Enterprise-Grade Security Measures

The platform employs enterprise-grade security measures to protect sensitive information. These include advanced encryption, secure access protocols, and continuous monitoring to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches.

Customizable Consent Forms

In addition to ensuring our own security and compliance, you have the option to include your own HIPAA consent form that the patient must accept just prior to initiating the interaction with the AI Nurse Copilot.

Collaborative Tools for Healthcare Teams

Multi-Player Note Collaboration

DeepCura provides collaborative note-taking for multiple users, enabling various healthcare professionals to edit the same patient note at the same time. Therefore, after the AI Nurse copilot creates a note based on its discussion with the patient, you can move it to your primary patient notes area and invite another individual to join in on that patient's documentation. This functionality guarantees that all team members, including doctors and nurses, can share their insights in real-time, improving the quality and precision of patient records.

Role-Based Access Control

With role-based access control, DeepCura ensures that each team member has the appropriate level of access to patient information. This means that sensitive data is only available to those who need it, maintaining privacy and security while facilitating efficient teamwork.

Real-Time Patient Thread Updates

Real-time patient thread updates keep everyone on the same page. As soon as new information is added to a patient's record, all team members are instantly notified. This feature is crucial for maintaining up-to-date and accurate patient information, especially in fast-paced healthcare environments.

AI-Driven Patient Management

Automated Referrals and Patient Handouts

DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot simplifies the handling of patient referrals and handouts. In addition to gathering information from your patient, when given the appropriate context, the AI Nurse Copilot can also offer your patient details such as:

  • Insights regarding their diagnosis, drawing from its own knowledge or from a specific article or piece of information you supply


  • Their medical records


  • Essential details for their upcoming visit


Your patient can then ask questions to the AI Nurse, and you can direct the AI on what it should and shouldn't address.

Conclusion

To sum up, DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot is transforming patient care by optimizing and improving the pre-charting process. With its degree of customization and support for multiple languages, healthcare providers can deliver a more tailored and efficient patient experience. The AI Nurse Copilot not only conserves time but also guarantees precision and adherence to HIPAA regulations. By embracing this cutting-edge technology, medical professionals can concentrate more on patient care and less on administrative duties, ultimately resulting in enhanced health outcomes and greater patient satisfaction.

Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Use the AI Nurse Copilot

Setting Up Your Account

1. Add Your Logo

  • Go to Settings.


  • Upload your logo. This logo will appear when a patient interacts with the AI Nurse Copilot.


2. Add Scheduling Link

3. Update Your Profile Information

  • Ensure your username and organization name are correctly entered, as these will appear in emails sent to patients.


  • Save any changes made.


Creating an AI Nurse Copilot for a Patient

1. Set Up a New AI Nurse Interaction

  • Go to AI Nurse Copilot.


  • Click on "Create AI Nurse Copilot".


  • Enter the patient's name.


  • Enter the patient's email.


Configuring the Sequence Template

1. Choose the Sequence Template

  • Choose or create a sequence template for the AI Nurse Copilot.


  • Go to our AI Nurse Copilot template library to get some ideas for sequence templates. If you like any of them, simply copy the instructions and paste them in the sequence instructions text box, giving it an appropriate title (e.g., Intake Form Template).


  1. Welcome Message


  • (optional) Customize a welcome message.


2. Add Consent Forms

  • (optional)Add your own HIPAA consent form and terms and conditions.


3. Language Settings

  • Choose the language for the AI Nurse interaction. Ensure the instructions are in the same language.


  • Save the template, name it and submit.


Patient Instructions

1. Start the Interaction

  • Once you click submit, the patient receives an email with interaction link and password.


2. Patient Verification

  • Patient opens the link and agrees to terms and conditions if you added your own consent form.


  • Enters the provided password to proceed.


3. Interactive Session

  • AI Nurse begins with your personalized welcome message or the default one.


  • The patient can use the microphone or type his or her answers.


  • AI Nurse verifies and collects patient information as instructed.


4. Note Generation and Verification

  • If it was instructed to do so in the sequence template, the AI Nurse Copilot generates the note and asks the patient to verify the information.


Final Steps and Additional Tips

1. Transferring Notes

- Transfer the finalized AI Nurse note to the patient's record. Edit if necessary.

2. Automated and Manual Merging

- Use the auto-append feature to integrate AI-generated notes with your encounter notes effortlessly.

- Alternatively, manually merge notes for a comprehensive documentation record.

By following these steps, you can effectively use the AI Nurse Copilot to streamline patient interactions and clinical note-taking, ensuring accurate and efficient documentation. We also have a video for you that takes you through these steps.


Frequently Asked Questions

What is DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot?

DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot serves as a digital aide that assists healthcare professionals in collecting or delivering information to patients well in advance of their appointments. The specifics of the information requested or shared are completely at the discretion of the provider. Additionally, providers have the option to include their logo and scheduling links to enhance the patient experience.

How does the AI Nurse Copilot handle multiple languages?

The AI Nurse Copilot supports multiple languages, allowing it to interact with patients in their preferred language. Providers can choose the language for each patient, ensuring clear communication.

Can I customize the welcome message for patients?

Yes, you can customize the welcome message that the AI Nurse Copilot displays to patients. This message can include instructions on how to interact with the AI, making it easier for patients to understand what to do.

Is DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot compliant with HIPAA?

Absolutely, DeepCura's AI Nurse Copilot is fully compliant with HIPAA regulations. This ensures that all patient information is handled securely and confidentially.

What kind of notes can the AI Nurse Copilot generate?

The AI Nurse Copilot is capable of producing different kinds of clinical notes derived from patient data. The notes it creates are completely at your discretion. Patients then review these notes prior to their completion. Providers have the ability to view, save, and modify these notes.

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