Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2021

If you read Healthcare IT Today regularly, or listen to our health it podcast, then you’re probably tired of hearing me talk about the potential of Ambient Clinical Voice in healthcare. For good or bad, I’m probably not going to stop. At least not until it’s proven that it can’t ever fulfill it’s potential.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2020

Coming into the year, one of the most exciting technologies I saw coming down the pipe was ambient clinical voice technologies and EHR AI Assistants. I thought this would be a major theme at the HIMSS20 Annual conference. Then, everything blew up included HIMSS20 being cancelled. Needless to say, it’s hard to talk about new, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

One example of Epic’s efforts to personalize and streamline the Epic documentation experience is through express lanes. They should be facing the patient and involve them in the documentation. Although, I personally found this anecdote interesting since AI documentation should in theory make this suggestion less important.

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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2024

NCQA is already starting to run pilots to receive this data not only on medial billing data but also closer to the bedside on EMR data in order to get quality data reporting through. One is because organizations that are playing in the value-based care space.

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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

Their current offering, DAX Copilot, is able to integrate with Epic’s “smart data elements” to provide granular clinical documentation in Epic from ambient voice recordings. Plus, they are constantly increasing the number of structured data fields they can populate.

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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2024

Learn more about Medvise.ai: [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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We’re excited as well and love how it helps relieve the documentation burden from clinicians. I can assure you that there’s no technology solution out there that healthcare organizations are more excited about than they are AI Medical Scribes.

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Healthcare IT Today

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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

These announcements were rapid-fire and met with applause from the audience: Slider Dicer NLP layer to allow researchers and clinicians to query the data using natural language like they would when talking to a colleague vs specific query language, available now URL Shortning & Engagement tracking for Cheers (Epic’s CRM), powered by Hello World, (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

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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