Exploring AI in Healthcare Systems: A Study of Medical Applications and a Proposal for a Smart Clinical Assistant

Abstract

The rising complexity and operational demands of modern healthcare systems have significantly increased resource usage and associated costs. This trend highlights the need for innovative approaches to optimize workflows and enhance decision-making. From this perspective, the present study explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute to improving efficiency and information access in the medical field. The article begins with an introduction and a concise literature review focused on the integration of AI in healthcare platforms. Also, three main research questions are presented here. Our research employs an evaluation and a comparison for five existing medical-based applications. Each of these platforms was assessed to determine whether and how AI technologies have been integrated into their functionalities. The findings from this analysis inspired us to the design of a novel AI-based architecture, which we propose in section three of the article. This proposed architecture aims to assist medical professionals by providing streamlined access to relevant patient information, using machine learning (ML) techniques. Also, at the end of this section we address the initial research questions. In the final section of the article, we conclude that the insights gained from analyzing existing medical chatbot platforms has informed the design of our AI-based solution, aimed at supporting both patients and healthcare professionals through an integrated and intelligent system. The findings highlight the necessity for systems that not only align with user expectations but also demonstrate seamless integration within clinical workflows. Future research should prioritize advancing the reliability, personalization, and regulatory compliance of these platforms, thereby fostering enhanced patient engagement and enabling healthcare professionals to deliver care that is both more efficient and more accessible.

1. Introduction

Healthcare occupies a distinctive position within society, as it not only safeguards individual well-being but also preserves the functional capacity and socio-economic potential of entire populations. In recent years, the demand for healthcare services has grown considerably, driven by demographic shifts, epidemiological transitions, and heightened public expectations. As a result, healthcare systems have expanded in scale and complexity, often accompanied by rising operational costs and structural inefficiencies [1]. In this context, the imperative for delivering effective, high-quality care has become increasingly urgent.

One of the most significant drivers of efficiency and quality in healthcare is medical technology [2]. Recent years have witnessed a rapid proliferation of advanced medical tools and platforms designed to support high-quality patient care in increasingly dynamic clinical environments. These innovations—ranging from diagnostic algorithms to decision-support systems—have the potential to streamline workflows, reduce errors, and enhance patient outcomes. However, given their central role in influencing both cost structures and clinical effectiveness, the integration and evaluation of such technologies warrant careful and systematic attention.

The increasing complexity of modern healthcare systems presents significant operational and strategic challenges for medical institutions worldwide. As patient populations grow, medical data proliferates, and expectations for high-quality care intensify, healthcare providers are under constant pressure to deliver timely, accurate, and efficient services. These pressures have led to a substantial rise in the use of clinical and administrative resources, often accompanied by escalating operational costs and workflow inefficiencies [3].

In this evolving context, digital transformation has become a central focus in the effort to optimize healthcare delivery. Among the most promising technologies driving this transformation is artificial intelligence (AI), which offers the potential to augment clinical decision-making, automate routine processes, and enhance data accessibility across a variety of platforms [4]. From diagnostic imaging and predictive analytics to patient engagement and resource allocation, AI systems are increasingly being embedded in healthcare infrastructure with the aim of improving outcomes and operational performance [5].

Despite the growing interest and investment in AI-based solutions, the actual integration of AI into medical platforms remains uneven and sometimes poorly understood [6]. Many systems advertise AI capabilities without clearly demonstrating how these technologies function or contribute to measurable improvements in practice [7]. This discrepancy highlights the need for systematic evaluation of existing platforms and for the development of coherent frameworks that guide the effective application of AI in healthcare settings [8].

The present study addresses this gap by conducting a critical analysis of five widely used medical applications, each of which claims to incorporate AI technologies [9]. Using a mixed-methods research design, we combine qualitative assessment with quantitative evaluation to determine the extent, purpose, and effectiveness of AI integration within these platforms. The findings of this evaluation inform the second part of the study, in which we propose a novel AI-based architecture intended to support more efficient workflows and improved access to medical information. This research contributes to the growing body of literature on AI in healthcare by offering practical insights into current implementations and by advancing a new model for intelligent system design in medical environments.

A unified patient management platform with AI capabilities should be developed to overcome public healthcare institution medical application restrictions by reducing therapeutic errors and Adverse Drug Events (ADEs). This research study aims to answer the following main questions:

• RQ1: How do we envision the next generation of intelligent clinical assistants integrating clinical decision-making workflows to autonomously analyze the adverse effects of combination medications while providing decision support to medical doctors?
• RQ2: What are the essential architectural elements and methodologies needed to create and execute a successful intelligent clinical support system?
• RQ3: What are the basic components of a framework that ensures the scalability and reliability of AI-based medical assistants, how has this concept evolved over time, and what is the potential of these assistants in modern healthcare systems?

2. Materials and Methods

In this section, we present a descriptive and comparative analysis of five digital health applications/platforms, categorized into three distinct groups: (1) platforms without chatbot integration, (2) platforms with integrated chatbots demonstrating modest or early-stage performance, and (3) platforms with integrated chatbots exhibiting advanced and impactful results. This classification enables a structured evaluation of the technological maturity and functional effectiveness of chatbot implementations in contemporary healthcare solutions. For each application or platform examined, we identified and documented the following elements: the name of the platform, its core features, and an assessment of its strengths and limitations. This structured approach facilitates a comparative understanding of the technological and functional diversity across the selected digital health solutions. At the conclusion of this section, we conducted a comparative analysis of the five digital health platforms, highlighting the transformative role of artificial intelligence in healthcare. The findings underscore the growing importance of AI technologies in enhancing diagnostic accuracy, optimizing clinical workflows, and improving patient engagement. Our evaluation provides compelling evidence that AI serves as a catalyst for innovation and progress in the medical domain, reinforcing its potential to drive significant advancements not only in healthcare delivery but also in broader interdisciplinary contexts.

2.1. MoodGYM

MoodGYM is a digital mental health platform developed in Canberra, Australia by the Australian National University (ANU), originally launched in 2001, but constantly updated and validated to this day (the latest major version was released in 2019). Moreover, MoodGYM is an interactive, automated online program based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) [10].

MoodGYM includes five interactive modules with questionnaires, fictional case studies, and simple personalized exercises. MoodGYM has had over 1 million users globally and has been translated into multiple languages (English, German, Norwegian). Its development has been supported by randomized clinical trials, which have shown modest effects in reducing depressive and anxiety symptoms [11]. The benefits of using this platform include extremely low cost, excellent scalability in low-resource settings, and anonymous online access.

The limitations of the platform include: no advanced personalization or conversational interactivity, low user adherence (many users drop out), and limited clinical impact compared to human-guided therapy. Also, integration with other platforms is non-existent [12]. In terms of international usage, MoodGYM is used in Australia and Europe.

Opportunities for this platform include AI/chatbot support integration and expanding communication across more languages and regions. However, serious threats to their existence and continued use include competition with advanced AI apps and a lack of sustained user interest. Thus, this platform exemplify low-cost, useful solutions in public mental health, but are limited by the absence of AI and conversational chatbot functionality.

2.2. Woebot

Woebot is a digital mental health platform developed in the USA by Woebot Health Inc., launched in 2017 but extensively studied between 2019 and 2020 [13]. It is an AI-based chatbot that provides cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions through simulated text conversations [14].

Woebot is designed to offer 24/7 conversational support, using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to interpret user language and deliver empathetic responses and CBT exercises. The platform features a simple, mobile-friendly interface with short conversations and subtle humor to maintain user engagement [15].

As of 2020, it had hundreds of thousands of downloads and tens of thousands of monthly active users. It is predominantly used in the United States, but the app is globally available in English. Its development has included expanding discussion topics (such as anxiety, depression, and everyday stress) and collaborations with researchers for clinical validation.

However, randomized controlled trials have shown small to moderate but significant reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms compared to control groups. Benefits of using the platform include: empathetic automated conversations, 24/7 availability, and lower cost compared to human therapy.

Limitations include: reported effects are small to moderate and not always consistent, lack of complex adaptation to individual profiles, and inability to replace human interaction in severe cases.

Regarding integration, Woebot functions as a standalone app. In some cases, there is discussion about integration with human clinical services, but this is not standardized. Its wide-scale use is mainly in the USA, though the platform is available globally. It is praised for its ease of use but criticized for lacking therapeutic “depth”.

Opportunities for the platform include improved NLP and personalization, as well as integration with human clinical services. However, strict mental health regulations and competition from more advanced AI solutions pose serious threats to the platform’s existence and adoption [16]. In conclusion, Woebot serves as a clear example of a platform with conversational AI, but with limited clinical results compared to traditional therapy or more complex interventions.

2.3. Wysa

Wysa is a digital platform created in India in 2016–2017 by Touchkin eServices Pvt Ltd., with global expansion after 2018. Its conversational chatbot focuses on psychological support through CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) techniques and mindfulness [17].

Wysa combines a conversational AI chatbot with guided journaling, relaxation exercises, and optional access to human therapists (for a fee). In 2022, Inkster et al. studied Wysa in a corporate setting, where it showed positive effects (reduction in anxiety/depression in pilot groups), though clinically modest [18]. The platform has over 5 million users globally (India, USA, UK, Australia). Its evolution includes expanding themes (self-compassion, financial stress, maternal health) and integration with corporate wellness programs. Strengths of the platform include: natural, anonymous conversation, guided journaling and relaxation exercises, and potential for global accessibility [19].

Weaknesses include: clinical study results are preliminary (pilot-stage), with modest clinical effects compared to standard treatment, and a need for more long-term validation. The platform offers integration with some corporate wellness (HR) programs, while its standard version is standalone. In terms of international use, it is very popular in India and among the Indian diaspora, and it is growing in the US and UK as a low-cost self-help option [20,21].

Opportunities for the platform include expansion to the general public and enhancement of AI capabilities. However, strict privacy regulations and competition in the corporate wellness space are serious threats to the existence and adoption of this digital platform.

Wysa is a clear example of a well-designed platform with conversational AI but with modest clinical outcomes—suggesting significant potential if it becomes more deeply integrated into healthcare systems [22].

2.4. COVID-19 Canada Pediatric Chatbot

The COVID-19 chatbot was created and implemented in Canada during 2020–2021 (Ample Labs, Toronto, Canada) [23] as part of the pediatric hospitals’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was developed in collaboration with major hospitals (e.g., SickKids Toronto) and local IT/AI teams. Its purpose was to screen children for COVID-19 symptoms before arriving at the hospital, in order to reduce the risk of transmission and overcrowding [24,25].

The conversational AI chatbot asked questions about symptoms, exposures, recent travel, and provided clear recommendations on whether to visit the hospital. It was directly integrated into hospital websites, with adaptations for pediatric language and parental access. Studies showed a 60–70% reduction in triage time and very high parental satisfaction [26].

• Strengths:

• 60–70% reduction in triage time
• Reduced risk of exposure for medical staff
• Very high user satisfaction (parents, doctors)
• Easy to scale to other medical contexts
• Frees up medical personnel
• Limits COVID-19 exposure in waiting rooms
• Free, anonymous access
• High acceptability in hospital settings

• Weaknesses:

• Limited to a specific domain (COVID-19 screening)
• Requires strong integration with local IT infrastructure
• Does not perform complex diagnoses
• Depends on regular updates to medical guidelines
• Needs to be embedded within hospital systems

In terms of adoption, the chatbot was expanded to several pediatric hospitals across Canada, and its model is replicable for other infectious diseases. The evolution of the chatbot has been spectacular: rapidly developed during the pandemic, it now serves as a prototype for future pediatric chatbots.

Opportunities include scaling to other domains (e.g., other infectious diseases) and expanding to general pediatric screening. This project is a clear example of successful clinical integration of conversational AI, with spectacular results in terms of efficiency and patient satisfaction.

2.5. COVID-19 Symptom Evaluation Chatbot for India

In India, the government launched an official chatbot in 2020–2021 (e.g., Aarogya Setu, along with separate state-level initiatives) for COVID-19 screening and triage on a national scale. Patel et al. (2023) describe these conversational tools integrated into mobile apps and government websites. This AI chatbot asked questions about symptoms, contact with positive cases, and guided users toward testing or isolation [23].

The chatbot was integrated with government databases and testing centers. The number of users reached millions—Aarogya Setu surpassed 200 million downloads. The AI chatbot achieved over 90% specificity in symptom screening based on official guidelines [27].

• Strengths:

• Millions of users within a few months;
• Extremely fast and accurate automated triage (specificity >90%);
• Relieves pressure on medical personnel;
• Reduces hospital overcrowding;
• Provides verified official information;
• Linguistic adaptations for regional languages.

• Weaknesses:

• Focused on a single pathology (COVID-19);
• Requires continuous updates (medical guidelines);
• Initial challenges with regionalization and digital literacy;
• Controversies around privacy and personal data.

Integration of the chatbot was achieved with government platforms, call centers, SMS, and mobile apps. In terms of international impact, this concept inspired other governments (e.g., Singapore, Australia), and the technology can be adapted for other infectious diseases in the post-pandemic context. As for its evolution, although launched in 2020 as an emergency response, the model has been continuously updated with new protocols and vaccination information.

Therefore, opportunities for this chatbot include adaptation to other pathologies and the export of its technology to other countries. However, rapid changes in medical protocols and resistance to adoption in rural areas without internet access pose serious threats to its usage and evolution. The COVID-19 chatbot in India is a clear example of nationwide integration of conversational AI, with spectacular impact on public health management [28].

2.6. Platforms Selection Criteria and Metrics

The five primary platforms were selected using the following criteria:

• Geographic Diversity: Platforms were chosen to represent a range of regions and health system contexts, including high, middle, and low income settings, and both Western and non-Western digital health innovation;
• Technology Type Representation: The selection includes both chatbot based (Woebot, Wysa, COVID-19 chatbots) and non-chatbot (MoodGYM) digital health solutions, enabling comparison between conversational artificial intelligence and traditional digital interventions;
• Clinical Domain Coverage: Platforms address both chronic (mental health: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, anxiety, depression) and acute (COVID-19 triage) care domains;
• Validation Level: Inclusion required peer reviewed evidence (randomized controlled trials, real-world studies, systematic reviews) or, for COVID-19 chatbots, documented operational impact and integration with healthcare systems.

For this study, we used a mixed-methods research design that combined quantitative and qualitative approaches. On the quantitative side, we measured clinical outcomes (such as depression and anxiety scores and triage specificity), user engagement (including how often people used the system and whether they continued to use it over time), and operational metrics (like triage time and overall reach). On the qualitative side, we focused on understanding user experience, the quality of the therapeutic relationship, and the acceptability of the system.

The metrics evaluation is presented in

Table 1. Metrics Evaluation.

Platform	Geographic Origin	User Engagement Metrics	Clinical Efficacy Measures
MoodGYM	Australia/Europe	Over 1 million users, high dropout	Modest reduction in depression/anxiety (randomized controlled trials)
Woebot	USA	12.14 average sessions (randomized controlled trial), high engagement	Small-moderate reduction in depression/anxiety (Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7)
Wysa	India/global	10.9 average sessions (healthcare workers), 67.7% positive feedback	Modest reduction in depression/anxiety (Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Patient Health Questionnaire-4
COVID-19 pediatric chatbot	Canada	High parental satisfaction, rapid adoption	60–70% reduction in triage time
COVID-19 chatbot	India	Millions of users, rapid scale-up	Over 90% specificity in triage

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2.7. Comparison and Analysis

Based on the study and analysis of these five medical chatbot applications, we developed a comprehensive comparative table (see

Table 2. Chatbot comparison.

Characteristic	MoodGYM	Woebot	Wysa	Chabot COVID-19 Pediatrician	Chatbot COVID-19 India
Has chatbot	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Type of Digital Intervention	Self-guided modular app	Text-based CBT chatbot	Chatbot + journaling + exercises	Hospital-integrated chatbot	National self-assessment chatbot
Objective/Domain	Mental health, depression prevention	Anxiety, depression	Psychological support for employees	COVID-19 screening	COVID-19 screening and triage
Key Benefits	Accessible, scalable, low cost	Empathetic, 24/7, low cost	Anonymous, CBT technique combination	60–70% triage time reduction, lower risk	Millions of users, >90% specificity
Major Limitations	No personalization, low adherence	Small/moderate effects, limited adaptation	Pilot, modest effects, limited validation	Narrow domain, requires IT integration	Continuous updates, early localization issues
AI/Chatbot	No	Basic conversational AI	Moderate conversational AI	Advanced conversational AI	Advanced conversational AI
Reported Clinical Outcomes	Variable, sometimes small-moderate effects	Significant but small symptom reductions	Reduced anxiety/depression in pilot groups	Reduced triage time, high satisfaction	Reduced overcrowding, efficient triage
Target Audience	Adolescents, adults (LMIC)	Adults	Corporate employees	Parents, children	General population (India)

) detailing the key characteristics of each platform. The table includes the following evaluated dimensions:

• Platform name
• Type of digital intervention
• Objective/domain
• Target audience
• AI technology (yes/no and what type)
• Key benefits
• Major limitations
• Reported clinical outcomes

Platforms without chatbots are useful for easy access but are limited in terms of personalization and user retention. Simple chatbots increase interaction but have modest clinical impact. Clinically well-integrated chatbots can achieve spectacular results by reducing time, costs, and risks for healthcare systems [7].

Integrating AI through chatbots in digital health platforms has clear effects: it increases interactivity and adherence, reduces costs and triage time, relieves human resource pressure in hospitals, and can save lives in crisis situations (e.g., COVID-19) [6].

The major difference lies in the level of clinical integration and the technological maturity of the chatbot. Advanced chatbots have the potential to transform entire medical processes, not just providing simple conversational support.

3. System Design and Workflow

3.1. Proposed System Architecture and Workflow

The current hospital information systems and patient management systems operate as separate entities without sufficient advanced support features. Despite the well-documented benefits of telemedicine and electronic medical records (EMRs) in enhancing healthcare accessibility and information management, their adoption within Romania’s public healthcare sector remains limited [7]. This persistent gap highlights the systemic challenges faced by many state-run institutions in fully implementing modern e-health technologies. A critical issue is the lack of interoperability among various subsystems—such as those managing patient admissions, laboratory results, and scheduling—which often results in fragmented communication and significant data loss. These inefficiencies underscore the urgent need for integrated digital health infrastructures to support effective and coordinated care delivery.

Moreover, fragmentation in healthcare systems prevents the complete utilization of modern innovations, including AI and big data analytics. A main obstacle to progress in clinical decision support and care coordination is the lack of interoperability because most medical data today exists in incompatible platforms.

In this section, we introduce a novel conceptual model for a web-based application platform dedicated to hospital patient management. The proposed system aims to unify core functionalities—such as scheduling, diagnostics, treatment planning, and record keeping—through the integration of an intelligent decision support module. This centralized approach is designed to enhance operational efficiency, improve clinical decision-making, and facilitate seamless communication across departments within the healthcare institution.

Our solution combines an AI-based system with a doctor workflow-centered architecture to provide medication safety features and automated scheduling and real-time patient data analysis. The internal mechanisms of this AI-based system are detailed in Section 3.4, where the architecture of the dedicated AI module is explained. Moreover, the proposed system directly addresses existing challenges related to system integration and the limitations of current decision support mechanisms. By enhancing interoperability and embedding proactive decision-making capabilities, the platform aims to improve clinical workflow efficiency and reduce the likelihood of medical errors. These improvements are expected to contribute to more accurate diagnoses, timely interventions, and ultimately, better patient outcomes.

Implementing AI in clinical applications has already generated quantifiable advantages. A recent meta-analysis [29] evaluated AI-based early warning systems for the deterioration of patient conditions. The research demonstrates substantial patient outcome improvements after healthcare providers implement AI models in real-world clinical settings. Implementing intelligent monitoring systems resulted in decreased hospital deaths and shorter patient stays when compared to traditional medical practices. AI solutions demonstrated effectiveness through their ability to reduce hospital stays but failed to achieve statistical significance in reducing intensive care unit transfers. The authors stress the importance of finding equilibrium because excessive alerts create staff fatigue, which damages their trust in the system.

Research has been conducted to develop an AI system for hospital patient flow optimization to decrease waiting times and enhance care quality [30]. This platform uses predictive models to estimate the duration of consultations and procedures, reallocating resources in real time according to occupancy levels. The results showed significant decreases in the average waiting time and increases in patient satisfaction, especially in departments with a high volume of admissions. A unified web architecture proposed in this study would enable the integration of such functionalities for automated investigation scheduling and dynamic resource allocation, which would directly contribute to clinical activity streamlining and department overcrowding reduction.

3.2. Proposed System Overview

The proposed system architecture is illustrated in Figure 1, representing a modern web-based application designed for hospital patient management. The diagram outlines the core components and their interactions, including the front-end user interface, back-end server infrastructure, centralized database, and the integrated AI module. This architectural model emphasizes modularity, scalability, and interoperability, serving as the foundation for intelligent clinical decision support and streamlined healthcare operations.

The application is built according to the following structure:

• The frontend, representing the user interface, developed using the React library (based on the JavaScript language), which provides an interactive environment through which the doctor can access patient information and enter medical orders.
• The backend, built with NestJS (a Node.js framework based on the JavaScript language), forming a robust core that manages the application logic, data processing, and integration with external services.
• A centralized relational SQL database that stores all medical data, including patient records, hospitalized patients in each department, prescribed treatments, laboratory results, and appointments, ensuring data consistency and accessibility at the national level.
• An AI module (implemented in Python 3.13.0) integrated into the back end to provide decision support. This AI engine is responsible for analyzing prescribed treatments and laboratory results. A more detailed presentation of the AI module architecture and its evaluation follows in Section 3.4 and Section 3.5.

Communication between components is managed through secure web requests, in which the frontend communicates with the server via HTTPS protocols, while the back end interacts with the AI module (for example, through a request or a message queue system) and with the database.

The system uses secure web requests to handle component communication where the frontend sends HTTPS requests to the server and the back end communicates with the AI module through requests or message queues and with the database.

This personal and secure token, combined with role-based access control (RBAC), provides granularity and precise control over access rights, operating on the principle of least privilege so that doctors can only see the data of the patients they manage [31]. Thus, the token is verified by the server with every request, and after successful authentication, the client application of the doctor is automatically populated with all the necessary information about their current patients (for example, all patients hospitalized in the respective department or service).

The main innovation of this architecture consists of integrating AI–based decision support services directly into clinical workflows and automating tasks that previously required manual intervention. Current state hospital systems operate with separate platforms for electronic health records (EHR) management and scheduling and decision support functions, but our unified system integrates all these functions through one interface. System design provides a better user experience while maintaining efficient data module connectivity, which prevents duplicate entries and reduces transcription errors.

This architecture uses a modular web technology framework to separate user interface functions from application logic and data storage and AI analytics for creating a unified intelligent patient management system.

3.3. Operational Workflow for the Doctor

The implemented architecture enables doctors to use the system with both efficiency and intelligence. Operational flow for a doctor handling hospitalization cases is shown in Figure 2 which demonstrates how AI supports different stages of the process.

Before explaining each step that the doctor must follow within the proposed application in order to correctly treat a patient, we will first outline the steps:

• Authentication in the system and display of patients;
• Selecting the patient and recording the initial data;
• Prescribing the initial treatment and verifying it with the help of the AI module;
• Requesting investigations and automatic scheduling;
• Receiving the results and interpreting them with the assistance of the AI module;
• Re-evaluating and adapting the treatment.

As the first step, at the beginning of the shift or upon the admission of a new patient, the doctor logs into the application using their secure token. Immediately, the application displays a table containing their patient list, retrieved from the database based on their department or service affiliation.

The doctor begins the second step by choosing either a new admission patient or an existing hospital patient before entering admission reasons and initial clinical observations into the system. Medical staff enters this information directly into the patient’s electronic record at the time of observation. A doctor can input an initial diagnosis or working hypothesis during this stage, which the system will save for future reference.

The doctor records basic patient admission data before moving on to step three for empirical treatment prescription based on the assumed diagnosis. An integrated AI module provides critical safety features at this stage because the server activates the AI service to evaluate drug–drug interactions and typical adverse reactions when the doctor inputs medication sets with specified dosages. These mechanisms rely on the Retrieval-Augmented Generation approach described in Section 3.4, which ensures that AI recommendations are based on official Summaries of Product Characteristics (SPC).

The term “very common adverse reactions” refers to adverse effects that appear in more than 1% of cases (more than 1 in 100 patients) according to the summaries of product characteristics for medicinal products [32]. This system will immediately notify the doctor when the AI detects two medications with known serious interactions or when it signals that a selected medication frequently causes side effects that need monitoring. A warning message appears through a pop-up or visual alert when Drug A and Drug B increase each other’s toxicity levels so the doctor can modify the treatment plan.

This system functions as a particular Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS). Traditional EHR systems contain medication alert modules, but these modules produce numerous generic warnings that doctors tend to disregard because of their low specificity [33].

Our AI–enhanced approach aims to make alerts more relevant and better adapted to the clinical context (for example, by considering the patient’s profile and the medications already administered), thus reducing the phenomenon of “alert fatigue” (fatigue caused by an excessive number of warnings). In conventional software systems, alert oversaturation generates ignore rates of up to 96%, which carries the risk that truly critical warnings will be overlooked [33]. By using advanced AI methods (such as checking drug interactions based on knowledge graphs), our system can discern which interactions or contraindications are truly clinically relevant, providing smarter alerts.

Research indicates that graph neural networks and other AI models demonstrate superior performance than conventional rule-based systems when detecting important drug–drug interactions [34]. The doctor maintains complete control of prescription decisions but receives immediate AI-generated safety assessments about treatments.

Implementing an AI module for medication safety checks within the prescribing workflow represents an advancement beyond current information systems used in state hospitals. This method enhances patient safety through a substantial reduction in preventable ADEs.

The doctor moves to step four after prescribing the initial treatment to use the system for requesting additional tests and interdisciplinary consultations. This system processes requests for laboratory tests, including blood tests and imaging investigations, as well as specialist consultations. It automatically processes the request by scheduling each test and consultation without human involvement.

The server checks available time slots (for example, the laboratory schedule for sample collection or the cardiology department’s availability for consultations) by accessing the database based on predefined rules and assigns the earliest possible slot for each requested service. In case of conflicts or delays, the AI can optimize the schedule, for example, by reordering non-urgent tests to avoid unnecessary and repeated patient transfers between departments.

This system operates differently from conventional workflows because nurses or administrative staff need to initiate phone calls to other departments or access different applications to schedule appointments. An automated scheduling system reduces time consumption while maintaining prompt execution of investigations. This practice follows the current smart hospital trends, which use AI scheduling systems to optimize patient flow and decrease both absenteeism and wait times [34].

System integration enables our system to boost hospital operational efficiency while releasing medical staff from performing repetitive logistical work. The scheduling module functions as a true coordination center because it sends notifications to involved departments and automatically updates patient schedules.

This platform enhances both result delivery and interpretation during step five when investigation results become available. The system receives laboratory results through automatic transmission when laboratory equipment or Laboratory Information System (LIS) integration is implemented, or laboratory staff manually enters results through a dedicated interface. Automatic notifications are sent to the responsible doctors after new results are saved in the database.

Our system stands out with its intelligent result analysis feature, which represents a new capability. By detecting subtle patterns, the AI-based anomaly detection system identifies minor patterns that human clinicians might miss during their busy work so they can provide immediate care to important changes. Acting as a clinical assistant, the platform integrates tools that retrieve data and mark important items for the doctor’s attention. The system performs automatic comparison of lab values to previous results, so doctors do not need to perform this task manually while presenting the results in an organized format (with possible visual indicators such as colored highlights or trend graphs).

The AI module provides both interpretative analysis and clinical decision support as part of its core functionality. A distinguishing feature of the system is its intelligent result analysis, which introduces an innovative dimension to medical data evaluation. By identifying subtle patterns that may be overlooked in fast-paced clinical environments, the system enhances diagnostic accuracy. Moreover, it ensures timely intervention by delivering immediate responses to critical changes in a patient’s condition.

According to another study [35], the authors analyzed the use of AI for the automatic detection of anomalies in laboratory data, an essential component in early diagnosis and the prevention of clinical errors. The authors proved that AI models can identify subtle patterns and statistical deviations that are invisible to manual analysis, even within very large data volumes. Modern systems can learn from historical data and alert the clinician in real time whenever a result significantly deviates from expected ranges. Integrating this functionality into the AI module of the proposed platform would ensure continuous monitoring of the biological values of hospitalized patients, with the ability to automatically trigger clinically relevant alerts, thereby reducing the risk of critical changes going unnoticed.

The diagnostic tools powered by AI technology have shown their ability to analyze extensive laboratory data while detecting irregularities that human reviewers would miss [36]. This platform operates as a digital clinical assistant through its integration of such tools, which automatically generate important alerts and mark data that needs doctor review. Such a system eliminates a doctor’s manual work of comparing laboratory values to previous results because it automatically performs this task while presenting organized data with easy-to-understand visual elements.

Doctors use laboratory results together with AI-generated insights to make exact treatment adjustments at step six. After that, they will modify the initial diagnosis or choose a specific treatment when infectious markers become positive or inflammatory markers show rising levels. The platform requires users to re-enter any modifications made to the treatment plan, including antibiotic changes and dosage adjustments. Its AI module performs drug–drug interaction verification and common adverse reaction identification for the new medication orders after the doctor submits them, exactly as it did during the empirical treatment phase.

The verification process repeats because treatment plans need to adapt to new information that emerges while maintaining absolute medication safety at each modification step. The system will notify the doctor about medication interactions with current treatments and potential adverse reactions that need close monitoring. Continuous feedback enables safer polypharmacy management because older systems lack this capability and perform only static checks during the initial treatment entry process. The same interface allows doctors to easily add additional investigations, such as laboratory tests or imaging studies for suspected complications and the scheduling process will automatically continue.

Finally, the proposed system includes a vital function that monitors patient progress throughout their treatment period. This platform produces graphs that show laboratory test values in relation to time and reference ranges when tests are repeated at regular intervals. The doctor can track changes in inflammatory markers after treatment and renal function test results during hospitalization through the platform. Such a system enables clear patient clinical trajectory understanding through its data visualization capabilities.

Most current EHR systems maintain historical data but lack effective graphical presentation methods. Our system integrates visual trend analysis with decision support as an essential component for an intuitive user experience. This feature enables healthcare providers to assess treatment success and determine when patients should be discharged or require further medical interventions.

3.4. AI Module Architecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Approach

At a conceptual level, the system exists while proof-of-concept validation represents the first step in its development. The research bases its findings on official data from the National Drug Directory within the specific Romanian context. Romania’s National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (ANMDMR) operates the official reference system known as the National Drug Directory which provides access to all authorized medicines in Romania [37]. The extraction of SPCs from this national source aims to establish a solid factual basis that is both updated and verifiable because SPCs represent official documents maintained by competent authorities on the Agency’s website with approved safety and efficacy data for medicines.

The smart medical assistant (SMA) system depends on a large collection of domain-specific data which includes SPCs that serve as official medical documentation for medicines by providing essential details about therapeutic uses and dosage instructions and contraindications and adverse reactions. As such, they constitute a high-quality knowledge source for the AI model [38]. The process begins with SPC retrieval, followed by the creation of an automated extraction system that downloads documents to convert them into JSON format for section-based organization. This dataset becomes the external knowledge base of the SMA system, preferred over relying exclusively on the information stored in the internal parameters of a general-purpose generative language model. Through this method, the model receives direct access to current pharmaceutical information through this method which solves the problem of generic models using static training data that misses domain-specific information and post-training updates [39].

This chosen AI architecture (see Figure 3) follows the paradigm of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), meaning text generation augmented through the retrieval of relevant information. In this configuration, a base language model (LLM) is coupled with a retrieval module that queries the SPC corpus, ensuring that the generated responses are informed and grounded in factual data from official sources.

In the training and inference workflow, the user’s query is first numerically encoded through an embedding model, then compared (in the vector space) with the embedding representations of SPC documents to retrieve the most relevant passages. These selected text fragments (typically Top-k by similarity score) are then appended to the input prompt of the generative model as factual context, after which the model produces the final answer while considering both the query and the retrieved context.

The system employs dual architecture that combines retrieval and generation capabilities to generate precise and current responses, as it searches external knowledge bases during each query instead of relying on its parameter storage. The RAG method functions as a core method for answering questions in particular domains (including biomedical) because it enables source detection and produces answers that reference evidence while enabling knowledge base updates through model adaptation without full retraining [39].

Choosing the RAG architecture instead of fine-tuning a model stems from its benefits in explainability and updateability and lower implementation costs. Unlike a fine-tuned model that encodes medical knowledge directly into its parameters, making it difficult to trace information sources and to update knowledge later, RAG connects the language model to an external, queryable memory (the SPC corpus) [40]. Within this setup, the system generates answers that duplicate SPC content word-for-word because it uses only SPC content facts to create responses that reference relevant sections for explanation. In practice, the system enables fast medication and SPC update addition through document entry into the knowledge base which avoids requiring full model retraining. As a result, the system requires an updated vector index and an additional retrieval pipeline which results in elevated technological complexity and dependency compared to a single fine-tuned monolithic model.

Adoption of the RAG-based architecture will continue, as it provides the most suitable solution for this situation. This model integrates SPC knowledge directly into its generation process, which enables it to access specialized information that reduces hallucinations by using verified sources and supports dynamic knowledge updates through minimal base model retraining. Overall, the RAG strategy delivers high effectiveness in system output reliability improvement because the model generates dependable results which stem from robust medical evidence found in [41].

We chose this architecture precisely to achieve more accurate and easily explainable responses, where every piece of information provided by the system is backed by an excerpt from the official documentation, thereby ensuring traceability and trust. Moreover, the system is updateable: as new SPCs or revised versions appear, they can be added to the knowledge base and the embedding index refreshed, enabling the system to respond to queries about new information without requiring complete retraining of the language model.

To evaluate the performance and robustness of the SMA system, we plan to include both qualitative assessments by human experts (comparing the generated responses with the source SPC content) and monitoring of factuality metrics. The retrieval mechanism accuracy evaluation will use quantitative methods to measure precision at k and recall at k which determine the percentage of relevant fragments retrieved in the top results. In this evaluation process, response accuracy will be determined by matching it against summaries of product characteristics (SPC) source texts and it will use bilingual evaluation understudy (BLEU) and recall-oriented understudy for gisting evaluation (ROUGE) metrics to evaluate the similarity of the summary to reference information. The system-generated interactions will undergo a qualitative evaluation through clinical expert assessment which will verify their medical accuracy and clinical usefulness in actual practice settings. This combination of automated validation and expert critical review will provide a rigorous assessment of the AI module’s performance and guide the iterative improvement process of the system.

Within its technical framework, the system combines operational efficiency with existing resource constraints. An all-MiniLM-L6-v2 semantic embedding model was preferred over larger variants due to its high efficiency, being approximately five times faster than more complex base models, while still providing satisfactory semantic quality [42]. The system enables efficient processing of numerous SPC documents through this trade-off which results in a minor reduction in accuracy when compared to more extensive models.

This project will use an open-source LLaMA family generative language model instead of GPT-4 because it provides better data protection and lower future expenses. However, this comes with the potential trade-off of somewhat lower raw performance compared to the most advanced commercial models [43]. The integration of RAG systems into unified pipelines through frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex enhances their development speed, but developers must use external libraries for this integration. Through this method, the prototyping process becomes faster, but developers need to include external libraries in their work.

3.5. AI Module Limitations, Ethical Considerations and Future Directions

At this development stage, the proposed system lacks both a working prototype and simulated study results to prove its operational capability and effectiveness at this development stage according to the current research. The proposed architecture will receive validation and improvement through prototype development and controlled environment testing which will be conducted in future work. Moreover, since the AI module of the assistant is strictly designed as a decision-support tool for medical doctors, its role is to assist in the decision-making process regarding treatment prescription, and not to replace clinical reasoning or the final medical decision. Medical practice should receive enhancement from artificial intelligence technologies according to current guidelines which also require transparent implementation for patient safety and data protection and fair treatment of all patients [44].

In operational settings, human specialists need to retain complete decision-making power in operational settings while artificial intelligence operates as an assistance system. As an intelligent assistant, the system operates as an intelligent assistant that examines data to offer doctors relevant medical information and suggestions from existing medical knowledge, but it does not operate independently to replace clinical decision-making. The attending medical doctor retains full authority to decide while using AI recommendations to assess patient requirements before accepting or changing or rejecting them. The current digital health standards support this method because clinicians always maintain full responsibility for patient care when they use AI-based support systems.

Through this system, medical doctors gain access to information and analytical tools that are not easily available during their practice, while still being allowed to work independently. Technology functions as a medical ally through our approach which builds trust in its application while maintaining human professionals as the decision-makers for critical patient care choices based on their expertise and professional duties.

For future capability development, the system needs Explainable AI (XAI) principles to ensure decision explainability. Practically, XAI aims to enhance the comprehensibility of AI systems and their outputs for humans [45]. Making recommendations through algorithms depends on explainability to gain clinician trust because it enables them to understand the reasoning behind each suggestion and maintain control over their decisions. Research indicates that medical doctors develop better confidence in AI-assisted decisions through AI model explanations which directly relate to medical practice [46]. Exact calibration is required for XAI systems, since users lose trust when explanations become too complex or inconsistent while searching for appropriate system transparency and explanation simplicity levels [47]. The SMA needs an explainable design to provide transparent automated decision-making which will help its adoption in medical environments.

The system requires equal attention to AI-assisted decision-making systems for detecting algorithmic bias and conducting fairness assessments. Use of unbalanced or incomplete training datasets produces algorithms that generate inferior results for patient populations, sustaining medical care disparities. Research indicates that diverse data collection and fairness-based algorithm development and appropriate regulatory systems must be implemented to stop these problems and create unbiased treatment recommendations for all patients [47]. For reliable deployment, the system needs built-in bias detection and correction systems during design to maintain impartiality in real-world operations.

Implementing AI in clinical practice requires responsible methods that address various medical ethical concerns and trust-related matters. Specialized literature discusses four main contemporary challenges which include protecting medical data confidentiality and obtaining consent for algorithm use and safeguarding patient autonomy and defining system error liability [48].

Thus, mechanisms for human supervision and auditing of algorithmic decisions must be implemented so that every alert or suggestion provided by the system can be verified and validated by medical personnel. The system design fulfills both professional responsibility standards and user trust requirements because the medical doctor retains full decision authority while the AI system delivers recommendations that are both clear and well-supported. Research shows trust serves as a primary factor that enables AI solution deployment in operational environments, yet organizations require robust governance systems and regulatory frameworks to manage related challenges and risks [49]. The system maintains these principles through its data protection mechanisms for patient confidentiality and its unbiased recommendation system and doctor-patient trust preservation through system-medical doctor collaboration.

Implementing medical AI systems requires developers to maintain open algorithm development processes and complete documentation while following fairness standards that give equal value to all patient groups, as outlined in a recent framework [48]. Current recommendations provide a useful principle which states doctors should not accept non-essential alerts because alert fatigue makes them less alert and causes them to ignore important warnings that threaten patient safety [50]. Therefore, the SMA system must be designed to deliver only relevant and context-filtered alerts and recommendations, minimizing decision-making “noise” and preserving an optimal level of user trust in the intelligent assistant.

Deployment of Smart Medical Assistants (SMA) in public hospitals at the technological level faces various major implementation obstacles. The present IT infrastructure runs with separate systems that lack integration because they fail to enable smooth information sharing between different platforms. Implementation of advanced technologies faces barriers because hospitals operate without contemporary technical systems, and they have restricted financial capabilities [51,52]. The high expenses of SMA system development and implementation and maintenance create major financial challenges because digitalization projects usually have limited funding availability. In practice, such complex projects are often impossible to achieve without consistent funding and modernized IT infrastructure.

Implementation of Smart Medical Assistants (SMA) at the legislative level faces an absence of established regulatory guidelines. Currently, the absence of AI healthcare regulations in Romania makes it difficult to authorize and audit the system. Processing of medical data by any AI solution requires GDPR compliance, but Romanian healthcare organizations struggle to implement GDPR because their staff members have different levels of awareness and their IT systems are not fully developed [53]. The combination of strict GDPR compliance rules with no healthcare AI regulations creates additional challenges which make digitalization projects in hospitals more complex and expensive.

3.6. Considerations on Research Questions

This section directly shows how the proposed Smart Clinical Assistant (SMA) framework fulfills the previously mentioned research questions. The evaluation of the proposed approach for clinical practice integration of AI involves correlating system design elements with research questions to determine its contribution to drug safety analysis autonomy and reliable scalable implementation.

RQ1: How do we envision the next generation of intelligent clinical assistants integrating clinical decision-making workflows to autonomously analyze the adverse effects of combination medications while providing decision support to medical doctors?

Future intelligent clinical assistants will function as systems which detect and analyze adverse effects from intricate drug combinations before presenting these findings to the doctors for decision support. Healthcare faces significant challenges from ADEs and drug–drug interactions so predictive capabilities are essential for doctors to implement preventive measures that boost patient safety [36].

AI research has shown that autonomous analysis can be achieved through recent technological developments. Generative models together with graph-based algorithms such as a semi-implicit graph variational autoencoder have been used to predict polypharmacy-related side effects through learning drug latent features [54]. The AI systems identify dangerous drug interactions and complex adverse reaction profiles that doctors might miss so they can perform early risk identification and create personalized prevention strategies.

The complete achievement of this vision requires the SMA to operate within clinical workflows as a decision-support partner. The operational workflow described in Section 3.3 and illustrated in Figure 2 shows how the AI module actively checks for drug–drug interactions and common adverse effects before treatment administration. The assistant should provide its analysis at the point of care through alerts or recommendations that appear in the electronic medical record interface so doctors can easily use AI-generated insights for their therapeutic choices. The future intelligent clinical assistants will function autonomously to analyze drug combination adverse effects with high precision while actively assisting clinical decisions through timely relevant guidance to enhance patient outcomes within medical care delivery.

RQ2: What are the essential architectural elements and methodologies needed to create and execute a successful intelligent clinical support system?

A SMA needs a modular and robust architecture that covers data ingestion, intelligent analysis, and user interaction within the clinical environment. A recent comprehensive review of AI agents in healthcare recommends segmenting these systems into specialized subsystems for perception, reasoning, memory, and interaction, reflecting the capabilities of an intelligent agent [55].

In the context of this research, the assistant is required to integrate the following components:

• The Data Perception Module is designed to aggregate and interpret clinical data from heterogeneous sources, including laboratory test results, EHRs, prescription data, and structured medical databases. This module employs advanced data integration techniques to harmonize disparate inputs into a unified, structured format. By transforming raw clinical information into standardized datasets, the system facilitates downstream analytical processes, enabling robust clinical decision support, predictive modeling, and research-driven insights.
• Knowledge-based reasoning engines, which examine data to find patterns in adverse events or possible drug interactions. These engines can use AI models for clinical reasoning, including large language models, machine learning (ML) classifiers, and knowledge graphs.
• Memory and Learning Components. These components interact with clinicians over time to improve prediction accuracy by learning from new cases and storing pertinent medical knowledge (such as medication databases and clinical guidelines).
• The Interaction and Integration Module functions as a communication interface between the clinical decision support system and medical personnel, ensuring alignment with established clinical practices. This module incorporates both a conversational agent and an interactive dashboard designed to elucidate system-generated alerts and recommendations. Furthermore, it provides integration capabilities with hospital IT infrastructures, enabling the suggestion of prescription adjustments and the formulation of patient monitoring plans. By facilitating transparent and actionable communication, the module enhances clinical workflow efficiency and supports informed decision-making. The SMA operates through interconnected modules that collect data before using AI reasoning to ensure medication safety and interact with users while following integration principles and security standards and maintainability protocols. The modular design with strict implementation will enable us to create an analysis system which performs effectively while being deployable in clinical environments and scalable between departments and hospitals and adaptable to upcoming requirements.

Figure 1 shows the system’s layered structure from the React-based frontend to the Python AI module, which is integrated via the NestJS backend and protected by role-based access control. Section 3.2 goes into detail about the modular architecture that supports these functionalities.

RQ3: What are the basic components of a framework that ensures the scalability and reliability of AI-based medical assistants, how has this concept evolved over time, and what is the potential of these assistants in modern healthcare systems?

The development of AI-based medical assistants has progressed substantially over the last few decades by moving from basic rule-based decision support systems to independent intelligent agents that use sophisticated ML and large conversational language models. The healthcare industry has not adopted AI technology at the same rate as technological advancements because of trust and safety and transparency issues [56].

The proposed system will develop into an autonomous clinical assistant that integrates seamlessly with clinical operations. The system’s modular structure (data perception, knowledge-based reasoning, memory, and interaction) provides scalability and flexibility to expand its functionalities as technology progresses. The framework described in Section 3.2 allows laboratory systems and national health databases and medical platforms to interoperate through standardized APIs. The framework includes transparent decision-logging and explainable AI outputs to address clinician trust and modularity to enable future expansion through the addition of new diagnostic algorithms without modifying the user interface or database structure.

The future SMA will function as a virtual agent that analyzes clinical data accurately for drug interaction detection and lab anomaly identification while actively supporting therapeutic decisions through clear and timely recommendations.

The system will function as a digital partner for clinicians through its advanced capabilities which use modern ML algorithms, including graph neural networks and state-of-the-art language models, to enhance their intuition and decision-making efficiency for better patient care. The platform’s web-based design with modularity and interoperability enables easy integration with current hospital systems and allows for scalable deployment from one department to a complete hospital network while keeping future needs in mind.

The system needs to establish solid principles of transparency and human control to achieve technological potential under conditions of trust and safety. The AI system functions as an intelligent assistant to doctors, supporting clinical judgment without exercising autonomous decision-making authority. The system maintains auditability through the logging of all AI-generated recommendations and alerts for review and retrospective analysis. The system provides traceability which adds an extra layer of accountability and verifiability to enable medical teams to audit and learn from AI-assisted decisions. The platform provides transparent explanations for alerts and predictions through accessible details about the reasons behind drug interaction flags.

The Assistant establishes user trust through detailed clinical explanations of AI-generated suggestions which also helps clinicians understand the decision-making process. The clinical AI component functions as a reliable decision support tool, underpinned by robust governance mechanisms that ensure its alignment with professional medical standards. These mechanisms include human oversight, systematic auditing procedures, and model explainability, all of which are essential for maintaining transparency, accountability, and trust. By incorporating these safeguards, the system meets the expectations and responsibilities of healthcare professionals, thereby facilitating its integration into clinical practice.

The importance of such a trust framework is also highlighted in the recent literature, which shows that without adequate transparency and explainability in algorithmic decision-making, the large-scale adoption of AI systems in medicine remains limited [57]. The core principles of the SMA design and implementation will lead to clinician acceptance and enable reliable and scalable AI integration in healthcare which will maximize the technology benefits for patients.

4. Discussion

The proposed system design demonstrates multiple vital benefits compared to existing systems through its architecture and workflow. This system unifies patient management with investigation requests and scheduling and decision support functions to achieve better usability and operational efficiency. A unified interface for doctors enables complete patient care management, which reduces application switching time and increases time available for medical practice. Removing manual tasks, including scheduling and data retrieval, matches research findings, which demonstrate digital solutions improve medical and administrative efficiency and quality by removing repetitive time-consuming tasks [51]. This approach provides a potential pathway to address the identified inefficiencies, though validation through implementation and testing remains necessary.

The current hospital information systems in public hospitals lack clinical intelligence, which AI provides through real-time integration. This system detects drug–drug interactions and common ADEs at the time of prescription to minimize therapeutic errors and preventable ADEs. Most common preventable incidents in hospitals continue to occur frequently and intelligent clinical decision support systems have shown effectiveness in risk reduction when properly implemented. Our system provides precise alerts through patient-specific context analysis and advanced knowledge sources, including extensive drug property databases and ML models. This approach follows worldwide trends to enhance medication alert systems through AI for better relevance [33].

Implementing AI systems for laboratory data analysis and anomaly detection enables clinicians to enhance their intuitive abilities. A large amount of laboratory data produced in hospitals becomes difficult to monitor because important changes often remain undetected in active wards, but AI-based monitoring detects evolving data patterns. Such a system performs two essential tasks by analyzing patient value trends and comparing them to expected reference changes, which would normally be beyond human detection capabilities.

The literature demonstrates that AI-enhanced diagnostic systems can quickly analyze intricate laboratory data to detect irregularities that human reviewers might overlook [36]. This capability leads to earlier interventions.

Ultimately, the system’s web-based and modular structure enables both scalability and easy accessibility. The system functions as a web application that users can access through any standard browser on devices connected to the hospital network or through a secure VPN that handles distributed clinical data securely and at scale without performance degradation or accessibility issues or workstation installation requirements [58]. The system enables deployment across various hospitals and clinics without needing to consider local infrastructure requirements.

The use of modern technologies for the development of the entire application ensures efficient maintenance and easy extensibility, leveraging a large developer ecosystem. In addition, the AI component enables effortless integration of new AI algorithms for decline prediction and diagnosis trend recognition without requiring changes to the user interface or database structure. Flexible architecture enables creative development. The system enables seamless interaction because it connects with different hospital systems (such as national health databases or external laboratory systems) through its API to support standardized data sharing in healthcare.

In this way, the proposed architecture creates a single intelligent patient management system that solves the problems of existing medical applications found in public institutions. This system optimizes doctors’ workflow through automated scheduling and notification features and delivers AI-based decision support during essential clinical stages, including treatment prescription and results interpretation.

5. Conclusions

Our research evaluates current healthcare AI practices while presenting an innovative solution for the future. The research evaluated five common medical applications to reveal inconsistent AI integration methods in clinical software which resulted in suboptimal decision-support features and limited automation of routine procedures. The research presents a new SMA architecture that solves the identified system deficiencies. The unified intelligent platform uses existing system knowledge to create an optimized clinical workflow system that enhances medical decision-making. The research connects theoretical AI capabilities to practical clinical requirements by providing a specific framework for AI-based healthcare management.

The proposed SMA combines essential clinical functions and data from multiple systems into one platform through its modular architecture which provides doctors with immediate access to complete patient information. Decision-making process receives additional support from AI components through natural language processing which summarizes patient notes and predictive algorithms which identify patients at risk and potential drug interactions. The system provides users with an easy-to-use interface that combines a chatbot with an alert dashboard for efficient interaction. The web-based assistant operates through standard APIs which enable smooth integration with existing hospital IT systems.

The implementation of AI in clinical operations leads to improved medical care quality and operational efficiency because it strengthens doctors’ capabilities. AI technology enables medical staff to focus on patient care through its automation of scheduling and data retrieval tasks. The doctor retains their decision-making authority because AI operates as a supporting system that provides evidence-based suggestions and safety checks which human professionals maintain full control over clinical judgments. AI technology integration enables pattern detection and error reduction without replacing human medical expertise which results in better clinical decision quality and speed.

This study highlights the growing importance of AI-driven conversational agents in healthcare, demonstrating both the opportunities and limitations of current medical chatbot platforms. The analysis underscores the need for systems that not only address user expectations but also integrate seamlessly into clinical workflows. Future research may focus on enhancing the reliability, personalization, and regulatory compliance of such platforms, with the potential to improve patient engagement and support healthcare professionals in delivering more efficient and accessible care.