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- Augmedix, a provider of ambient medical documentation and data solutions, announced the early access release Augmedix Go, a clinician-controlled mobile app that uses generative AI to instantaneously create a fully automated draft medical note after each patient visit.
Augmedix Go harnesses proprietary natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), and structured data sets, key components of Augmedix’s tech stack. This powerful technology is
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Augmedix Expands AI Medical Documentation to Behavioral Health Market
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- Augmedix announced today the expansion of the company’s ambient medical documentation products to the behavioral healthcare market.
Augmedix currently supports behavioral healthcare entities with its Augmedix Live and Augmedix Notes products and will supplement those with its newest product, Augmedix Go, later this year.
Reduces Burnout for Behavioral Health Clinicians
Nearly half of psychologists report burnout or the inability to meet patient demand.
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Duped by Data? Here’s Why EMRs Are Antiquated & Outdated in Today’s Hospital
Electronic medical records (EMRs) - software systems where physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers store, retrieve, and act on clinical data - are fundamentally broken. This sentiment is so widely shared among healthcare workers that it has become almost trite to point it out. Patients feel it too - we’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve heard “isn’t it in my chart?” when we ask a question during a clinical visit.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of EMRs do not facilitate
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KLAS: Clinical Documentation Strategies 2023
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For years, documentation has been a pain point that has led to clinician frustration and burnout, but numerous strategies have emerged to ease that burden and enhance patient care. COVID-19 has exacerbated burnout, leading organizations to renew their focus on improving documentation.A new report by KLAS examines physician-facing documentation technology and services, along with how vendors compare in overall scores, and the key performance metrics of value and
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Notable Leverages GPT to Automate Patient Front Office Experience
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Notable, an intelligent automation company for healthcare, launches Patient AI, a solution leveraging large language models (LLMs) and GPT (the technology powering ChatGPT) to bring personalization at scale to healthcare.Using GPT to scan existing clinical documentation, this tech can detect missed diagnoses, identify lapsed insurance cards, incorrect addresses, eligible clinical trials, or costly care gaps in real-time across an entire patient population.
How
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Nuance and Microsoft Launches AI-Automated Clinical Documentation App
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- Nuance Communications and Microsoft launches DAX Express, a workflow-integrated, fully automated clinical documentation application and the first to combine proven conversational and ambient AI with the newest and most capable generative AI technology, GPT4.
- DAX Express creates draft clinical notes automatically and securely in seconds from exam room or telehealth patient conversations for immediate clinical review after each
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Epic, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Chartis Named 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® Awards
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Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report, released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments.
- Impact Advisors tied with Nordic to be a
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FHIR Adoption and Implementation Challenges
The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was introduced by HL7 in 2014 as a significant replacement for the HL7 V2 and V3 standards. An open standard called FHIR, which was initially drafted in 2011 makes it easier than ever for legacy systems and new apps to exchange data. FHIR was created to not only increase communication efficiency and interoperability compared to earlier standards but also to facilitate implementation by giving clear specifications and allowing
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The Continuing Rise of AI in the Healthcare Sector in 2023
The announcement in September 2022 that the health tech company Iodine Software was entering into a partnership with the software platform TruCode “to upend clinical administration using artificial intelligence” serves as one of the more recent reminders of AI’s considerable impact on the healthcare sector.
Certainly, it will be felt not just in the administrative realm, but also in the clinical and operational aspects as well. And given the challenges presented by a rapidly aging population,
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Prior Authorization Reforms Don’t Address the Real Problem. Here’s How AI Can Help.
After waiting weeks for an open appointment, John finally gets in to see the orthopedic surgeon to evaluate his acute knee pain. He’s already been off work for over two months and has barely been able to leave the house, popping anti-inflammatory and pain medicine to manage the pain every day.
Suspecting a torn meniscus, the doctor orders an MRI to verify the diagnosis and plan his treatment approach. The nurse begins the process by calling John’s insurance carrier to verify coverage,
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