Family Medicine Spotlight - How Dr. Stanley Hurwitz at VCH Automate Trimester Calculations with Empathia AI’s Autofill
Clinic Snapshot
Field | Details |
|---|---|
Provider Name | Stanley Hurwitz**,** Retired Family Practitioner, Urgent Care Clinician at Vancouver Coastal Health |
Trial Program | PHSA AI Healthcare Program Trial |
EMR Systems Used | Cerner (primary), previously OSCAR |
AI Programs Tested | Empathia, Heidi, Scriberry |
Location | Richmond, British Columbia, Canada |
Care Setting | Urgent Care Clinic |
Background
Dr. Hurwitz, a retired family physician now working at Vancouver Coastal Health’s Urgent Care, participated in the PHSA-organized AI healthcare trials to evaluate emerging AI documentation tools across different EMRs.
With over two decades of clinical and programming experience — including writing Grease Monkey scripts for OSCAR — Dr. Hurwitz has a strong interest in improving charting efficiency and interoperability.
During the trial, Dr. Hurwitz compared several AI solutions, including Heidi, Scriberry, and Empathia AI, noting Empathia’s iPhone app as a standout advantage. While Heidi also offered an app, which crashed a lot, Scriberry did not, and its web version performed inconsistently on iPhone. Dr. Hurwitz emphasized the importance of integration with major EMR systems such as Cerner, Meditech, and Epic, noting that Empathia shows promising compatibility.
The Challenge
Dr. Hurwitz’s workflow often includes managing pregnancy screening schedules. After each visit, in addition to SOAP notes, he creates a supplemental form outlining the appropriate time frames for prenatal screening tests (for example, weeks 9–14, 18–22, and 24–28). He then provides patients with a printed copy to help them complete each screening on time.
However, his existing pregranancy screening forms required manual data entry— a process prone to formatting errors and time delays.
With prior experience customizing templates in Cerner and OSCAR, Stanley was particularly interested in testing Empathia AI’s EMMA Toolkit — a built-in system that allows patient data from generated notes to autofill forms and any web-based clinical form.
The Solution — Empathia AI’s EMMA Toolkit with Autofill
EMMA Toolkit can automatically populate web-based forms using data extracted from Empathia-generated notes.
Key Capabilities:
Autofill to Existing HTML Forms:
Patient data — such as last menstrual period, ultrasound date, and other fields — can be mapped directly into Dr. Hurwitz’s pregnancy screening form, without modifying the original HTML structure.
Smart Field Matching:
The toolkit identifies input fields by name or ID and fills them with the correct data from Empathia’s structured note.
Print-Ready Form Output:
Once filled, Dr. Hurwitz can review and print the form for patients — preserving his established workflow for distributing screening schedules.
Why It’s a Game Changer
Before Empathia’s EMMA Toolkit, Dr. Hurwitz had to:
Manually copy dates and identifiers from his notes into each patient’s HTML screening form.
Recalculate trimester intervals and risk scores separately.
Print or email the form after several manual steps.
Now, with EMMA’s Autofill:
No retyping or copying is needed — the form populates automatically when the note is finalized.
Date-based logic remains intact, ensuring screening deadlines (weeks 9–14, 18–22, 24–28) are calculated correctly.
Legacy HTML forms remain usable, protecting the clinic’s existing workflows.
Printed outputs are ready instantly, so patients receive their screening schedule before leaving the office.
“Empathia lets me keep my existing workflow but makes it smarter. I can use my prenatal screening forms the way I always have — just without the manual typing.” — Dr. Stanley Hurwitz, Urgent Care Clinician, Vancouver Coastal Health
Conclusion
Empathia AI’s Autofill feature is transforming how clinicians handle structured forms.
For healthcare professionals like Dr. Stanley Hurwitz, who rely on forms for prenatal screening, this feature means fewer clicks, no retyping, and instant printouts — all while keeping their trusted workflow intact.
Empathia AI is the first Canadian AI documentation platform to bridge EMR integration and web-based form automation, giving clinicians complete flexibility and control over how they document and share patient data.
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