Chronicle launches tool to search reports on California hospitals (opens in new tab)

We also confronted a deeper challenge: Some of the most serious events described in inspection reports — including deaths and assaults — are not directly labeled. Reporters had to manually read dozens of reports, some several hundred pages long, to bring to light wrongful deaths, patient rights abuses and more. The Chronicle used artificial intelligence to help make that information more accessible. After extensive testing and review, an AI model scanned inspection narratives and flagged sent...