How AI Is Transforming Clinical Documentation at Intermountain Health
Since implementing AI clinical documentation improvement (CDI) tools, Intermountain has seen a 22% point increase in inpatient chart completion during or immediately after rounds.
Documentation Tools Aren’t Just for Doctors: Inside Reid Health’s Deployment of Abridge’s Nurse Tech
Rural health system Reid Health is using Abridge's AI-powered documentation tech to reduce burnout among nurses. It appears to be working — after-shift charting is down by up to 45 minutes, and the RN vacancy rate has been cut more than in half, said Misti Foust-Cofield, Reid’s chief nursing officer.
Why Pharma Companies Should Look To Social Media For Better Patient Insight
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.
Abridge Goes Beyond Documentation: 4 Updates
Clinical AI startup Abridge held a New York City event to signal it's done being thought of as just an AI scribe. The company announced a Nvidia foundation model partnership, an Eli Lilly investment, new capabilities for its platform, and the intent to help mediate the relationship between payers and providers.
What ‘The Pitt’ Gets Right About Emergency Medicine — and What It Reveals About Healthcare IT
Some of the most powerful scenes aren’t the dramatic saves, but the quiet moments when clinicians connect with patients amid the chaos. Healthcare teams deserve access systems that allow for more of those moments.
Do Ambient Scribe Startups Have a Future Now That Epic Launched Its Own Tool?
Epic’s rollout of a built-in AI charting tool is intensifying competition in the already crowded ambient AI scribe market, forcing standalone vendors to sharpen their differentiation in an Epic-dominated health system landscape.
Ambience Healthcare Gains Unicorn Status & Snags $243M
Ambience Healthcare closed a $243 million Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion. The startup, which offers an AI-powered platform for clinical documentation and coding, aims to reduce clinician burnout by automating time-consuming administrative tasks across a wide range of specialties.
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
What Will Be Healthcare’s Next Big AI Use Case Following Ambient Scribes?
Over the past couple of years, ambient scribes have earned widespread adoption among health systems. While there's excitement around other categories like AI agents, no other AI use case has achieved ambient scribes’ level of traction, noted Daniel Yang, Kaiser Permanente’s vice president of AI and emerging technologies.
How One Health System Drove Revenue Gains with Ambient Listening
Riverside Health is reporting an increase in revenue and net margins as a result of adopting Abridge’s ambient AI technology. The tool listens to doctor-patient interactions and generates clinical notes — which not only alleviates physicians’ burnout, but also improves their documentation accuracy. The Virginia-based health system saw a 14% increase in HCC diagnoses documented per encounter.
Why Hospitals Are Scaling AI Scribes, Even Though They Don’t Reduce Costs
AI-powered scribes are proving their ability to dramatically reduce clinician burnout, but their financial impact is unclear, according to research from the Peterson Health Technology Institute.
This Hospital Exec Wants Nurses to Join the Ambient Listening Party Too
Lavonia Thomas, nursing informatics officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, hopes that nurses will gain more access to ambient listening tools that listen in on patient conversations and then generate summaries for documentation purposes. These AI tools have become popular among physicians in the past couple years.
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How Ambience Is Saving Clinicians from ‘the Perpetual Dread’ of Documentation Overload
Idaho-based health system St. Luke’s is rolling out Ambience Healthcare’s AI platform across its enterprise following a successful pilot. The AI-powered scribing tool decreased clinicians’ documentation time by 39%.
Suki Adds New Features to Help Its AI Assistant Stand Out from Other Tools
In collaboration with Google Cloud, Suki added two capabilities to its AI assistant: patient summaries and Q&A functionality. These new features might help Suki differentiate itself from other companies selling AI-powered tools to help with documentation and coding, such as Abridge, DeepScribe and Microsoft.
Therapists vs. Insurance: How AI Could End the Battle Over Mental Health Care
With these tools, therapists can reclaim their time, focus on their patients, and deliver the high-quality care that every individual deserves — all while maintaining the financial stability to thrive in their practices.
The Sewing Machine Changed American Industry Forever — Ambient Listening Tools Could Have a Similar Effect in Healthcare
The ability to reduce physician burnout is one of the most exciting things about AI, said CHAI CEO Brian Anderson. In his view, ambient listening AI could end up changing the healthcare delivery world in a similar way that the advent of the sewing machine changed the textile and fashion industry in the 1840s.
When It Comes to AI, Rural Doctors Have FOMO — Meditech & Suki Are Teaming Up to Address This
Meditech is integrating Suki’s AI assistant into more than a dozen rural health systems, including St. Mary's Healthcare in New York and Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Indiana.