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+# The Clinician FOCUS Project
+**A Framework for Optimizing (Healthcare) Clinician User-Experience and Success**
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+[Join our Discord Community!](https://discord.gg/dxjuYcHXnv)  *Connect with us, our team, and others interested in this work!*
+[View our Project Planning Board for this project!](https://github.com/orgs/ClinicianFOCUS/projects/2)
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+**ClinicianFOCUS** is part of the **"Unburdening Primary Healthcare: An Open-Source AI Clinician Assistance Platform"** Applied Research Project. This initiative is funded by the **Conestoga College New and Emerging Researcher Grant+ (CNERG+)** program as well as project partner **Dr. Braedon Hendy**.
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+Led by **Principal Investigator Prof. Michael Yingbull**, a computer science professor at Conestoga College in Waterloo, Ontario, along with research partner **Dr. Braedon Hendy**, this project is focused on reducing burdens faced by primary care practitioners in clinican settings through an open-source AI enabled-platform that enhances efficiency and streamlines clinical tasks and care. 
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+## Key Goals
+- Develop a **real-time AI partner** and related tools to assist clinicians during patient encounters.
+- **Automate documentation tasks** and provide proactive assistance in the clinical workflow.
+- Ensure **security and scalability** in all developed solutions, with a focus on privacy and ethical standards.
+- Release all developed code under the **AGPL v3+** license to promote customization and further innovation sharing in the healthcare community.
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+This platform aims to be a transparent, customizable tool for healthcare providers in clinical settings.
+Work began September, 2024. Feel free to follow our progress and efforts here! 
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+Be sure to check out [Dr. Hendy's FreeScribe Repository](https://github.com/1984Doc/AI-Scribe), which is an open-source medical scribing platform written in python, that was the motivation for futher work. This tool is useable in its current development state; check out that link to find out more. 
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+Learn more about the grant and its impact:
+[Conestoga CNERG+ Funding Announcement](https://blogs1.conestogac.on.ca/news/2023/10/cnerg_and_cnerg_funding_awarde.php)
 
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