clinical documentation
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Providers
Innovaccer Previews Its New Provider AI Copilot at HIMSS24
On Monday at HIMSS24, Innovaccer unveiled a preview of its new AI copilot for providers, which is slated to go on the market by the end of 2024. The solution is a portable tablet device designed to provide clinicians with point-of-care support — it flags care and coding gaps, assists with clinical documentation and advises clinicians on possible diagnosis pathways.
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These 3 Pieces of Wisdom Could Help Hospitals Avoid Failure When Adopting New Tech
During a recent panel, three health system executives shared some of the most important lessons they’ve learned from the digital initiatives they’ve worked on in the past couple years. Some of their nuggets of wisdom included starting with a problem instead of a solution and being sure not to use financial ROI as the only metric for success.
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Take part in this survey and share some of the trends you are seeing among your clients across healthcare, including chronic conditions, behavioral health and navigation.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Providers
How AI Scribe Vendors Can Better Meet the Needs of Primary Care Physicians
Elation Health released results of a survey it conducted to learn more about how primary care physicians feel about AI scribes. It found that they haven’t really experienced the benefits of these tools yet, but they hope AI scribes can lead to time savings, reduced cognitive burden, improved job satisfaction, better patient focus and more time for care coordination.
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Helping Doctors Help Patients: Digital Health’s Role in Reinventing How the Work That is Healthcare is Delivered
Investing in Friction-reducing tactics such as community building and providing benefits, training, and personalized support to employees will yield compounding long-term benefits while reducing churn rate.
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Microsoft’s Healthcare AI Efforts Holds Huge Promise for Patients
In a preview before the official announcement at HLTH last week, Microsoft executives and its hospital customers shared use cases of how its suite of AI tools can be used by health systems to improve healthcare delivery and alleviate provider burnout.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence
Digital Hospital of the Future Streamlines Care to Reduce Burdens on Clinicians
The most successful implementations of digital solutions offer value propositions on both sides of the equation — they create value for the patient and family, while also making the clinician’s job easier and more enjoyable by saving time and eliminating ancillary duties.
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How HCA Is Integrating Google’s Generative AI Into Its Emergency Departments
This year, HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership by exploring ways to integrate Google’s generative AI into HCA’s workflows. The most developed project under this initiative is a pilot that began in February in which HCA’s emergency department physicians are testing a voice-enabled medical dictation tool to save them time on clinical documentation.
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How Meditech Plans to Integrate Google’s Generative AI Into Its EHR
Over the past year, Meditech has deepened its relationship with Google Cloud by exploring ways to embed Google’s generative AI into its EHR. Some of the use cases the EHR vendor is exploring include an enhanced search and summarization tool that would present clinicians with a longitudinal view of their patient and a tool that would auto-generate clinical documentation for the hospital course summary.
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Innovaccer Unveils AI Suite With Automation Tools For Doctors, C-Suite Execs, Care Managers & More
Innovaccer announced a new suite of healthcare products. It comprises four different solutions — one for answering healthcare executives’ questions about their business metrics, one for automating care planning and documentation, one for generating clinical visit summaries, and one for streamlining workflows at contact centers.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health IT, Health Tech, Startups
Epic Is Integrating Abridge’s Generative AI Tool Into Its EHR
Epic announced that it will integrate Abridge’s clinical documentation tool into its EHR workflow. The startup’s generative AI tool listens to visits and creates a near-instant summary that adheres to physicians’ prototypical note structure.
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Is Amazon’s Approach With HealthScribe Favoring Collaboration Over Competition Smart?
Amazon recently unveiled HealthScribe, an API that software companies can use to create clinical note generation apps that providers can later adopt. With this approach, Amazon is seeking to collaborate with companies that are building clinical documentation AI apps rather than compete with them. Some think this approach is clever, but others think it does little to facilitate bi-directional EHR integration and create standardization.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Burnout Continues To Crush Clinicians, But Voice Tech and AI Could Help
In addition to reducing workload, NLP and ambient voice technology can also improve the quality of care that clinicians provide. By analyzing EHRs and other patient data, NLP algorithms can identify potential health risk factors and recommend preventative measures.
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Epic Integrates Suki’s Voice Assistant Into Its EHR
Suki recently announced one of its biggest partnerships to date: it is integrating its voice assistant into Epic’s EHR. The startup’s assistant can be thought of as like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa — but for doctors.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Trends to Watch For in “Ambient AI” at the Point of Care
Ambient AI promises a second coming for technology at the point of care enabling EHR systems to elegantly work for providers in the background, in natural workflows and “in conversation,” versus requiring the provider and patients to step aside, waste time, and “feed the beasts” of legacy transactional systems.