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JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows.

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MARCH 20, 2024

When front-end speech recognition technology was broadly introduced across all specialties 10-15 years ago, at first, speech recognition accuracy tended to be good enough to reduce the administrative effort of clinical documentation, but also low enough to strongly encourage diligent proofreading.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Then, we debate whether we think ambient clinical voice will just do documentation or if it will become a two-way AI assistant. Will ambient clinical voice just do the documentation or will it become a true two-way AI assistant? Next, we discuss the key factors in determining which vendors will be successful in this market.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

a like-minded startup focused on developing a mobile AI assistant to automate clinical documentation for physicians. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced the acquisition of Saykara, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI is becoming an essential tool in healthcare and is being leveraged to create new efficiencies this includes better documentation, streamlined data extraction, and predictive modeling that contribute to enhanced clinical efficiencies and higher-quality care. However, a strong foundation is crucial before leveraging such innovations.

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JULY 11, 2024

Greenway is Using AI Internally “The executive leadership team at Greenway uses ambient voice solutions to record and summarize our meetings,” shared Sarker. Those insights have helped him motivate his team to use AI to accelerate internal operations and deliver more features to clients.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Although, I’m really just a fan of relieving the documentation burden that the healthcare industrial complex has placed on doctors. As many of you know, I’ve been a big fan of ambient clinical voice for a while. That’s the real problem and ambient clinical voice is aiming to improve that situation.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. CDA supports document exchange among all structures involved in patient care. HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alleviate Provider Burden Beyond the strains of patient care delivery, the status quo asks providers to spend extensive administrative time on chart documentation and medical coding. To that end, here are three ways AI is transforming medical coding to improve the financial health of practices and the quality of care accessed by patients.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Omniscient Leadership Omniscient’s Co-Founder and CEO, Meade Monger, is a growth-focused business development leader with extensive expertise across technology, IT, business, and economics. Stephanie Langeland is a member of the Omniscient leadership team serving as Vice President, Technical Data Project Management & Development.

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MARCH 1, 2023

As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of all the efforts going on to improve the physician documentation process. In other words, there are a lot of companies working on this problem since the documentation burden on clinicians is real. It’s a burden that’s burning out physicians.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While at the HLTH 2024 conference in Las Vegas, we had a chance to catch up with Lebrun to hear about their growth as a company and how their product has evolved, from a solution focused on ambient clinical voice documentation to becoming a comprehensive AI assistant for clinicians.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Eventually, that information must be reconciled in the new system with all of the disparate sources, including legacy system(s), scanned documents, continuum of care documents (CCDs), and various databases (archives, HIEs, pharmacy databases, state registries, etc.). It’s just a question of when this happens and who does the work.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Learn more about Corti: [link] Check out other articles on ambient clinical voice: Nuance Is Setting the Bar for Ambient Clinical Voice A Look at Nabla Copilot’s Automatic Clinical Documentation Fully Automated Medical Scribes Using AI Oracle Health Goes Beyond Visit Summaries with Its Use of AI in Their EHR Augmedix Derives More Value from Automated (..)

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APRIL 21, 2021

billion for Nuance, has cemented a place as a leader in the growing market for AI-driven, hands-free automated clinical documentation. In a move that could have significant implications for the future of medical records, Microsoft has agreed to acquire Nuance Communications. Microsoft, which paid a cool $19.7

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JULY 9, 2024

In fact, the growing use of EHRs has increased the burden of faxing, because sending documents using this method is so easy and reliable. Most records that come in from other institutions arrive as faxes—even other clinical sites that use EHRs.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Learn more about Innovaccer: [link] Check out other articles in our ambient clinical voice series: How Comprehend PT Takes Clinical Notes Our of Physical Therapists’ Hands Sunoh’s Ambient Clinical Voice Automates Clinician Note Creation Corti Becomes Part of the Conversation Nuance Is Setting the Bar for Ambient Clinical Voice A Look at Nabla (..)

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MARCH 22, 2021

I hate my EMR) and others point to health IT as the potential solution (ie. EHR auto documentation). Plus, COVID has added another […] Many people point at health IT when it comes to the topic of burnout. The ironic part is that some point to health IT as the problem (ie. In this episode we dive into those details.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Rucker points out that the current data exchange standard in health care, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) , is “anchored on 1990s document exchange” and is useful for slow-moving bureaucratic decisions, not providing continuous access to data for improved health care.

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MAY 15, 2024

Kaustubh Sharma, Co-Founder and CEO at ambient voice provider MarianaAI , promises a “three-click process” to generate documentation from a patient visit.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

When you can remove the EMR from the conversation, you can have a patient-provider discussion face-to-face. They no longer have to spend their evenings doing documentation.” NextGen Ambient Assist “I think there is real utility in what we are doing with ambient listening,” explained Sides.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Their Bells documentation assistant allows progress notes to be completed within minutes, with quality checks such as interacting with the clinicians in real time to make sure they enter statements that back up the diagnosis and choice of action. The results were not only fewer ER visits, but more access to care.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities. The AHA’s aim was to reduce unnecessary documentation and streamline the coding process.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Drawing on the EMR for patient history and medication information. Patient Discharge Instructions Delivering consistent discharge instructions based upon EMR information and allowing for both the documentation of the questions and the actual aftercare response.

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MAY 17, 2023

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). One source of burnout is the heavy workload required to document patient-provider interactions.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Customizing the view of an individual’s workflow, along with the use of voice recognition templates, greatly aids in minimizing documentation time. Implementing advanced features like predictive text, AI-driven decision support, and voice recognition can streamline documentation and enhance efficiency.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

To wrap up, we can ask whether this study adequately backed up claims in the article that an AI-based, ambient voice transcription service can “reduce documentation burden” and “enhance physician–patient encounters.”

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JUNE 18, 2024

Now, with generative AI, artificial intelligence can play a significant role in understanding both clinical and payer-related documents. If an error occurs, multiple parties must review the documentation before the payments can be corrected. This advancement makes AI perfect for impacting the hospital revenue cycle.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Learn more about DeepScribe: [link] Check out other articles in our ambient clinical voice series: Context Makes Innovaccer More than a Note Generator How Comprehend PT Takes Clinical Notes Our of Physical Therapists’ Hands Sunoh’s Ambient Clinical Voice Automates Clinician Note Creation Corti Becomes Part of the Conversation Nuance Is Setting the (..)

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

You could see that eCW had put a lot of focus on improving the speed of documentation including number of clicks and time spent documenting. I think time spent documenting matters a lot more than clicks even if clicks are often cited as the problem. It literally showed how much time was spend after hours documenting.

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APRIL 5, 2023

In this announcement, Nuance and Microsoft announced what they called the “First Fully AI-Automated Clinical Documentation Application” that will compliment their DAX ambient solution.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Learn more about ScribeAmerica: [link] Check out other articles on ambient clinical voice: Corti Becomes Part of the Conversation Nuance Is Setting the Bar for Ambient Clinical Voice A Look at Nabla Copilot’s Automatic Clinical Documentation Fully Automated Medical Scribes Using AI Oracle Health Goes Beyond Visit Summaries with Its Use of AI in Their (..)

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Learn more about Abridge: [link] Check out other articles on ambient clinical voice: Corti Becomes Part of the Conversation Nuance Is Setting the Bar for Ambient Clinical Voice A Look at Nabla Copilot’s Automatic Clinical Documentation Fully Automated Medical Scribes Using AI Oracle Health Goes Beyond Visit Summaries with Its Use of AI in Their EHR (..)

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JANUARY 30, 2023

It is well documented that patients find it a barrier even to sign up for an account on a portal. Yosi Health’s system uses a patient matching algorithm that matches the patient information available in the EMR, reinforced by a two-factor authenticator. Yosi Health tries to reduce this friction in several ways.

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JULY 25, 2024

This is why it is so valuable for patients to have a well documented ACP that’s been shared with their clinician and their loved ones. Trying to do advanced care planning in the heat of the moment is challenging and fraught with all sorts of problems for the patient and the clinician. And yet, far too many patients do not have one.

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JULY 19, 2023

This makes sense because the EHR is the clinical record that drives the schedule, the care decisions, the clinical documentation, the billing, and much more. We sat down with Danielle Graham, EMR Clinical Integrations Manager at The Little Clinic , to learn more about how this EHR update is helping her and the clinicians at her organization.

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JULY 7, 2022

One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. Instead of making clinicians more resilient (they’re already extremely resilient), we need to address the core problems in healthcare that are causing burnout.

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