How to Use Basilias' AI Assistant

This document outlines the functionality and utility of Basilias' AI assistant, providing a guide on how to access and leverage its features for patient information retrieval, history tracking, and administrative tasks. The AI assistant is context-aware and can assist with various functions within the patient dashboard or specific patient notes.

Accessing the AI Assistant

The AI assistant can be accessed by clicking the speech bubble icon in the upper right-hand corner of the interface. When you hover over it, the tooltip "chat with AI assistant" will appear. Clicking this icon will open the AI assistant in the sidebar.

Key Capabilities of the AI Assistant

The AI assistant is designed to streamline various aspects of your practice, acting as a competent and helpful coworker. Its key capabilities include:

• Finding Patient Information: The assistant can help you locate specific patient details, even if you only remember fragmented information (e.g., a pet's name or a holiday destination).

• Tabulating Data and calculating risk scores: The assistant can help you tabulate the last number of laboratory values and dates, it can even tabulate risk factors and calculate risk scores.

• Retrieving Patient History: It can search across the patient dashboard or within a patient's notes to provide relevant historical information.

• Performing Administrative Tasks: The AI assistant can assist with tasks such as creating new patients, scheduling appointments, or drafting referral letters.

Context Awareness

A significant feature of the AI assistant is its context awareness:

• If opened on the patient dashboard, it will search for information across the entire dashboard.

• If opened within a patient's notes, it will focus its search within those specific notes.

This context-aware functionality makes the AI assistant highly efficient for performing targeted tasks.

Practical Examples of AI Assistant Use

Consider the AI assistant as a virtual physician, medical assistant, or administrator. Here are some practical examples of how you might use it:

• Patient Search: "Find patients I saw last week who were referred to orthopedics."

• New Patient Creation: "Create a new patient with the following basic details: [Patient Name, DOB, Contact Information]."

• Appointment Scheduling: "Schedule an appointment for [Patient Name] for a follow-up on their back pain."

• Referral Letter Drafting: "Draft a referral letter for [Patient Name] to orthopedics for their leg pain."

• Information Retrieval: "What medications is [Patient Name] currently taking for their head pain?" or "When is [Patient Name]'s MRI scheduled?"

The AI assistant can also help you recall specific details about patients, such as "I can't remember a patient's name that I saw a few weeks or months ago, but I remember they told me about their cat called Mister Fluffy. Can you help me find their name?"

Common Actions

The AI assistant understands common medical terms and actions, and is improving all the time. Sample actions include:

At the Patient Level:

• Symptom evolution: How has the nature and severity of Adam's abdominal pain changed from all of his previous presentations? Has the frequency of urinary tract infections been changing and how has the culture and sensitivity profile evolved since their first presentation?

• Medications: Why did they start taking Aspirin? Who stopped their prescription for metformin and when?

• Procedures: Book this patient for the OR in 2 weeks time for a Left Knee arthroscopy +/- debridement.

At the Clinic of Health System Level:

• Outbreaks: How many patients presented in the past week with symptoms similar to Mr Adams? How many patients presented with any combination of the symptoms similar to: fever, headache, neck stiffness, skin rash, photophobia, nausea or vomiting?

• Wait times: What is the average time from referral to review by Vascular Surgery for patients with symptoms similar to Ms. Batista?

• Audits and Reports: How many patients in this practice have a current prescription for diclofenac? How many diabetic patients are awaiting review by a podiatrist?

Last updated on August 02, 2025.