What You Should Know:
– Ambience Healthcare, an AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, announced a significant expansion of its Inpatient Care Setting offering with the introduction of an AI-powered Conditions Advisor.
– The new capability is designed to help clinicians capture the full complexity of their patients’ conditions at the point of care, leading to better clinical decision-making and improved care coordination.
Solving the Hidden Diagnosis Challenge
Healthcare faces a “perfect storm” where patient complexity and the volume of clinical data are rising exponentially. The challenge for clinicians is that secondary diagnoses, which critically impact patient health, often remain hidden among vast amounts of chart data.
Evidence-Based Clinical Intelligence in Workflow
Built for seamless integration into inpatient workflows, the Conditions Advisor analyzes the complete patient record, including data available from outside hospital records. It surfaces clinical signals and evidence that support potentially missed diagnoses. For example, it might flag progressive weight loss in a cancer patient that could indicate cachexia.
Key features ensuring clinical utility and compliance include:
- Longitudinal Data Synthesis: Analyzes the complete patient record to identify clinically significant patterns and surface linked evidence needed to render the best care.
- Workflow Integration: Supports clinicians before, during, or after visits, adapting to different practice patterns without detracting from clinical workflows.
- Clinician Autonomy: Keeps the clinician in the driver’s seat to manage, evaluate, assess, and treat secondary conditions, with full decision-making authority.
- Compliance-Focused Design: Seamlessly integrates into documentation workflows, aligned with AHIMA/ACDIS standards and national guidelines.
“Today’s clinicians need to capture not just the principal diagnosis for admission, but all conditions impacting the health and well-being of the patient,” said Will Morris, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Ambience Healthcare. “Our goal is to help them deliver better care by bringing the most relevant clinical information to their attention.”
