Electronic health records hold vast amounts of patient data — so much that clinicians often struggle to distill what truly matters at the point of care.

One of the most promising aspects of AI is its ability to help make sense of that data and deliver quick insights so that physicians can act sooner and with greater confidence, said Jeremy Cauwels, chief medical officer at Sanford Health , during an interview last month at Reuters’ Total Health conference in Chicago.

He noted that his health system is embedding AI into its EHR to automate evidence-based care recommendations. For instance, Sanford has deployed a chronic kidney disease module that tracks when a patient moves from one stage of the disease to another and automatically prompts primary care physicians with the correct labs

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