For years, hospitals have poured time, money and manpower into electronic health records, building sprawling digital systems meant to organize modern medicine. But somewhere along the way, many clinicians found themselves buried beneath the very technology designed to help them.

At Children's Hospital of Orange County, known as CHOC Children's and part of the Rady Children's Health health system, Dr. Steven Martel believes a new wave of artificial intelligence tools may finally help reverse that trend.