• By Terry (Coach T) Bazemore
• 01/10/2024

Creating the "Elements for Achieving Cost-Effective Interoperability for Rural Hospitals" Article Using AI Prompt Engineering

 Executive Summary

In this article, I’m going to talk to you about a simple Generative AI (GenAI) use case that will create one in a series of blog articles. This will set the stage for the more complex topic of using GenAI while processing clinical or administrative data in stream as a patient-centered improvement to the continuum of care.

The resulting series of blog articles will speak to how rural hospitals can achieve cost-effective, AI-enabled interoperability.

Let’s look at a simple form of GenAI in action before delving deep into its use and value in rural healthcare settings. The process detailed below will produce the initial article using GenAI.

 

Back Story

Over a weekend, I decided to create a blog series about the cost-effective integration of health care systems for rural hospitals.  Since time is always of the essence, I decided to put my other skill and passion for leveraging GenAI to work as I am a Certified Generative AI Prompt Engineer.  What does that mean? It means that I have trained in patterns, practices, and methodologies to be able to effectively prompt transformer-based AI technologies in a way that allows me to elicit desired responses from technologies like ChatGPT, Llama, Bert, MidJourney, and others. 

What does this have to do with health care and rural hospitals?  Rural hospitals will need to be able to continue to perform for their patients just like larger hospitals.  This includes the ability to incorporate GenAI capabilities responsibly, securely, and ethically in the continuum of care.  That is one of the things that we do at Nexus Point Systems Integration (Nexus Point S.I.).  We incorporate GenAI in a way that it is intrinsic in the ecosystem.  Our goal, above what we already do today, is to make GenAI an inline tool that enhances the value of the doctor-patient relationship and supports more effective clinical decision-making.

The first article in the resulting blog series is about the value of a key interoperability partnership in rural hospitals.  I used GenAI to produce the blog article with a well-engineered AI prompt. The article is a simple demonstration of producing viable results from GenAI using well-engineered prompting methods, which is vital to the use of AI in clinical settings.

Nexus Point S.I. is, in fact, applying GenAI techniques to bring new capabilities to our customers.  I will discuss these as we get farther into this series.

So, let’s get to it.

I engineered the following AI prompt and gave it to my AI assistant, ChatGPT.  The link below the engineered prompt will take you to the resulting blog article.

You be the judge as to whether the output is valuable.

 

Engineered Prompt:

AI assistant, you are an expert at integrating hospital systems using HL7. You have vast experience in the difficulties that rural hospitals face with the high cost of interoperability where the HIS handles the systems integration to other hospital systems and to downstream partners and vendors. Write me a 1-page blog post called “Elements for achieving Cost-Effective Interoperability for Rural Hospitals”, to convey and elaborate key elements for ongoing cost efficiency and quality improvement, and why it is important to work with a third-party health systems integration firm (in this case called Nexus Point S.I.).  Do so with the understanding that Nexus Point S.I. provides its own cloud or on premises-based interface engine that has been used for 10 years in hospitals and Rx PBMs with standards like, HL7, NCPDP and x12 along with expert staffing to provide support and engineering managed services. Please include a list of value propositions for rural hospitals given the tight budgets, small IT departments and the fact that every new integration managed fully by the hospitals chosen HIS systems can be very costly. Please elaborate on the fact that too many customizations are not in the best interest of the HIS because they need to maintain a tight code base to support a vast array of clients. Explain how, with the help of a third-party systems integrator like Nexus Point S.I., initial costs can be offset, and long-term costs reduced when rural hospitals install, manage, and maintain their own interface engine between their HIS and other systems.  Explain how this is viable whether the interface engine is deployed in the cloud or in the hospital’s IT environment. Please follow by separately summarizing the article. 

Resulting AI-Generated Blog Article:

Please read the resulting blog at the following Link... Read>>

Title: Elements for Achieving Cost-Effective Interoperability for Rural Hospitals (AI-Enabled Post) 

Subtitle - How health systems integration companies like Nexus Point System Integration, LLC (Nexus Point S.I.) help rural hospitals meet their needs.