Abridge announced the largest deployment of its technology to date — the University of Kansas Health System will adopt the software for more than 1,500 of its physicians across 140 locations. The startup's technology listens to visits and creates a near-instant summary that adheres to physicians' prototypical note structure.
Ambient scribing solutions are technical marvels, but in the end, don’t address the root problem of physician documentation. The fundamental goal is to provide an easier way for physicians to take the mental model in their head and put it into the patient’s digital file.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Advent International, a private equity firm, is investing an undisclosed amount into Iodine boosting its valuation beyond $1 billion. The hope is that the company's AI-powered clinical documentation improvement software can capture a greater share of the market for software products that help hospitals code and bill accurately to receive reimbursement.
Microsoft will buy up healthcare AI partner Nuance for $19.7 billion. Nuance makes speech-recognition tools for clinical documentation, as well as security tools.
Automation expands the capacity of care teams, allowing providers to accomplish more with less. As a result, automation can offer an unbiased and personalized mechanism to reach patients in the manner that best suits them.
We cannot earn patients’ trust and respect if we are tethered to a computer in the exam room, navigating the EHR concurrent to a visit or otherwise in a hurry to finish so we can return to our office where data entry to the EHR awaits us.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The 51-hospital system and artificial intelligence company are building on their existing collaboration to deploy technology that will allow physicians to focus solely on their patients during visits.
The company, which offers a remote scribe services, secured $25 million in private placement financing and began trading publicly on the OTC markets after a reverse merger with Malo Holdings.
Seattle-based Saykara claims its voice-based physician assistant can now fully automate some patient interactions, meaning no scribe is required in the back end to confirm the system’s results. The system can also automatically fill out the correct fields in the EHR, requiring no clicks.
Augmedix anticipates doubling the number of doctors who use its transcription service, which blends natural language processing and human oversight.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
At the annual HIMSS conference this year, Nuance revealed its Ambient Clinical Intelligence technology, which brings AI into the whole exam room to promote natural language interaction.
The Iowa Clinic in West Des Moines implemented IKS Health's Scribble tool, an asynchronous virtual scribe service, and it is helping physicians save time and see more patients.
The startup, Suki, has a product that enables a physician to speak about a patient's appointment. The tool, which can be integrated into an EMR, then documents what the doctor says.
The hospital said its implementation of Medicomp's Quippe clinical documentation system has helped it improve patient outcomes and boost clinician productivity.
Among those providers investing undisclosed amounts are Sutter Health and Dignity Health from Augmedix's home turf in Northern California, plus Englewood, Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives and Cincinnati-based TriHealth.