NORRISTOWN, PA — MRO has launched an artificial intelligence engine that automates more than 60% of data elements in clinical registry abstraction, combining the technology with human review as health systems contend with growing data volumes and limited specialist staffing.
The Norristown clinical data management company said Prodigy is available for National Cardiovascular Data Registry and Society of Thoracic Surgeons registries, with additional registries planned.
Prodigy handles case identification, data abstraction and follow-up within MRO’s managed registry service. The company said the system helps identify eligible cases and maintains an accuracy standard above 97% while increasing abstraction capacity.
The technology shifts portions of the work traditionally performed manually by clinical abstractors to AI, while retaining human validation for data used by health systems in quality programs and performance improvement.
“Credentialed abstractors are hard to hire and harder to retain, and every hour one spends hunting through a chart for a single data element is an hour not spent on applying the judgment only they can provide,” said Lidia Bernik, president of MRO’s Curation Solutions.
Bernik said Prodigy allows abstractors to move from searching for information to validating AI-generated suggestions, with each suggestion linked to its source in the patient’s record.
MRO is positioning that combination of automation and clinical review as an alternative to both manual-only abstraction and fully automated approaches where data integrity may be difficult to validate.
Danielle Stephen, manager of performance improvement at Tampa General Hospital, said reducing time spent on routine abstraction can allow clinical staff to concentrate on applying data to quality initiatives.
“Less time with tedious activities means more time for practical intervention,” Stephen said. “MRO’s AI solutions, like Prodigy, yield not only pivotal time and cost savings but also better accuracy in case selection where every patient counts.”
Prodigy is delivered through MRO’s fully managed abstraction service and is supported by more than 1,200 clinical data specialists. The company said the system connects with electronic health records using integration methods designed to limit the implementation burden on health-system IT departments.
The service is available now to MRO health-system clients.
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