The Clinician FOCUS Project

A Framework for Optimizing (Healthcare) Clinician User-Experience and Success

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ClinicianFOCUS is part of the "Unburdening Primary Healthcare: An Open-Source AI Clinician Assistance Platform" Applied Research Project. This initiative is funded by the Conestoga College New and Emerging Researcher Grant+ (CNERG+) program as well as project partner Dr. Braedon Hendy.

Led by Principal Investigator Prof. Michael Yingbull, a computer science professor at Conestoga College in Waterloo, Ontario, along with research partner Dr. Braedon Hendy, this project is focused on reducing burdens faced by primary care practitioners in clinican settings through an open-source AI enabled-platform that enhances efficiency and streamlines clinical tasks and care.

Key Goals

• Develop a real-time AI partner and related tools to assist clinicians during patient encounters.
• Automate documentation tasks and provide proactive assistance in the clinical workflow.
• Ensure security and scalability in all developed solutions, with a focus on privacy and ethical standards.
• Release all developed code under the AGPL v3+ license to promote customization and further innovation sharing in the healthcare community.

This platform aims to be a transparent, customizable tool for healthcare providers in clinical settings. Work began September, 2024. Feel free to follow our progress and efforts here!

Be sure to check out Dr. Hendy's FreeScribe Repository, which is an open-source medical scribing platform written in python, that was the motivation for futher work. This tool is useable in its current development state; check out that link to find out more.

Learn more about the grant and its impact: Conestoga CNERG+ Funding Announcement