Getting 1% better with small changes

Consider the 1% rule for your practice. What is one small administrative task you could delegate or eliminate to be more effective next week?

For many medical specialists, the most significant time drain isn't the patient encounter, but the extensive preparation it demands. The process of reviewing a dense referral package, extracting the relevant history, and structuring a new consult note from scratch consumes valuable clinical hours. This constant context-switching between deep clinical analysis and administrative data entry is a known contributor to cognitive load, fragmenting focus and impacting overall practice efficiency.

When exploring AI, it’s crucial to match the tool to the task. AI scribes, for example, are powerful allies for synchronous documentation, excelling at capturing the nuances of the live patient encounter. Their primary design is to reduce in-room charting. However, this workflow doesn't address the asynchronous, heavy-lifting required before the patient even arrives. The pre-visit synthesis of complex medical history from referral documents remains a manual task.

Automated consult note generation offers a different, complementary solution focused on strategic delegation. This is the workflow CleverConsult is engineered to optimize. Our platform processes the entire referral package alongside a customized patient questionnaire to automatically draft a comprehensive, structured consult note tailored to your specialty. The note is built before the visit, allowing you to walk into the encounter fully prepared and focused solely on patient care, not data entry.

As you plan for the rest of 2025, consider the compounding benefit of this one change. If you could delegate the initial draft of every consult note—ensuring it was accurate, EMR-friendly, and compliant with Canadian privacy standards like PHIPA and PIPEDA—how much time would you reclaim to invest back into your patients and your practice?

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