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.
While AI continues to advance, the healthcare industry requires a level of accuracy, understanding, and confidentiality that only well-trained human transcriptionists can consistently provide.
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Health systems across the country are launching enterprise-wide deployments of AI-powered clinical documentation tools. Hospital leaders agree that this technology reduces physician burnout, as well as allows physicians to have more meaningful and productive interactions with patients.
While burnout levels may be improving slightly, physicians’ administrative burden still remains a major issue. Providers are hungry for more tools designed to simplify these tasks, namely documentation, a new report shows.
Value-based care results in a lot of added administrative tasks for physicians — so much so that one health system leader believes value-based care will never reach true scale unless providers figure out how to ease that burden. The adoption of new technology, coupled with workflow training from fellow physicians, can help address this issue, population health experts say.
Today, clinicians have to spend an inordinate and impractical amount of time combing through the EHR just to find the information they need to provide that level of care. All of that back-end administrative work should be the function of technology.
PurpleLab® stands out from others in this sector by providing its data analytics services to several different groups of users across healthcare and pharma companies.
To address the growing physician shortage, some people argue that the scope of practice should be expanded for skilled healthcare professionals like nurse practitioners and pharmacists. American Medical Association President Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld said this is a “terrible idea.” He argued that throwing other professionals into physicians' roles will have poor ramifications of patient safety. In his view, the industry should focus on uplifting strong interprofessional care teams.
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.
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.
Only about half of physicians think their organization’s leaders are transparent, honest and make good decisions for patients and employees, according to a new report. To remedy this problem, the leaders of provider organizations must deploy more transparent communication lines with their physicians, as well as facilitate opportunities for physicians to nurture connections with their teams.
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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.
Feedtrail believes healthcare workers become more satisfied in their roles when they’re connected to messages of patient gratitude, so it built technology to deliver that positive feedback to clinicians. The company recently announced the results of a five-month clinician retention workgroup, finding that 77% of clinicians agreed that consistently receiving positive patient messages reinforced their purpose.
In an interview at the Vive conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Craig Richardville, Intermountain's chief digital and information officer outlined the three areas of priority for Intermountain Health for which technology can be leveraged. But when it comes to a major headache for CIOs, Richardville seems to suggest that a government-led all-hands-on-deck approach is what is needed.
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.
Many large health systems and provider practices continue to be restrictive, routinely assigning tasks like ordering preventive services such as referrals for annual eye exams or mammograms to overburdened physicians, rather than utilizing nurses who are credentialed for these services. The result is dissatisfied nurses, strained physicians, and frustrated patients.