{"id":436590,"date":"2026-01-29T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:32:23","slug":"why-hospitals-are-making-their-own-chatgpts-for-patient-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436590\/","title":{"rendered":"Why hospitals are making their own ChatGPTs for patient records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make the most of his 30-minute appointments with patients, Penn Medicine Chief Health Information Officer Srinath Adusumalli goes through his patients\u2019 charts the day before to figure out why they are seeing him, a cardiologist. To do that, he has to navigate multiple tabs in the electronic health record: prior appointments, prior labs and imaging tests, as well as scanned documents from other hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Penn Medicine introduced a tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennmedicine.org\/news\/new-ai-tool-helps-doctors-to-sift-and-synthesize-patient-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chart Hero<\/a> that aims to cut this work by letting clinicians query and summarize the patient\u2019s medical record with an artificial intelligence chatbot-like interface. Currently, around 70 Penn clinicians in different specialties are testing it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stanford Health Care last year launched ChatEHR, a similar, internally built tool that integrates with Stanford\u2019s Epic electronic health record. As of mid-January, it was being used by 1,450 clinicians out of roughly 7,000 eligible users. The two health systems are not alone: Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, implemented a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/digitalhealth\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pdig.0001141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">similar homegrown system<\/a>, and teams <a href=\"https:\/\/dihi.org\/scout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at Duke Health<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/ehrs\/inside-chipper-chops-ai-assistant-built-for-epic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia<\/a> are developing similar applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-text\">STAT+ Exclusive Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-login\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"restricted-content-breaker-bg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765280600_844_stat-plus-breaker-bg.png\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stat-plus-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-plus-logo-white.svg\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThis article is exclusive to STAT+ subscribers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUnlock this article \u2014 and get additional analysis of the technologies disrupting health care \u2014 by subscribing to STAT+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-breaker-wrapper-cta mobile\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta mobile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIndividual plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGroup plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button view-all\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker view all plans\" aria-label=\"View All Plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View All Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTo read the rest of this story subscribe to STAT+.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button restricted-button\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker subscribe cta 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To make the most of his 30-minute appointments with patients, Penn Medicine Chief Health Information Officer Srinath Adusumalli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[181,97,252,37583,253,248],"class_list":["post-436590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-tech","tag-healthcare","tag-stat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}