- Today, Nuance and the American Medical Association announced a partnership to pilot innovations preventing physician burnout from documentation overload. - This partnership is a step forward in solving physician burnout and the associated costs by piloting the combination of each organization’s technologies to reduce distractions from patient care caused by increasing administrative demands. Nuance®
Communications, Inc and the American Medical Association (AMA)
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How Do We Make Dignity the Animating Principle in Healthcare?
Dignity-focused organizations are not easy to define, but also not hard to recognize. Justice Stewart It’s all about the patient. Well, unless that patient has been to particular hospitals for treatment and is having trouble paying the ensuing bills. Then it’s about the hospital and collections agents and wage garnishments and such. For this approach to providing care, the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan think tank advocating for bold healthcare ideas, honored a group of what they clearly
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AMA: 7 Physician Digital Health Adoption Trends Driving Digital Transformation
- New AMA survey reveals physicians’ motivations and requirements for adopting digital health adoption and attitudinal shifts from 2016 to 2019. - Adoption of digital tools has grown significantly among all physicians regardless of gender, specialty or age. - Adoption of remote care tools such as tele-visits and remote monitoring had the most movement. - Awareness of most of the emerging technologies such as artificial or augmented intelligence is fairly high. Adoption of digital
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Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare industry executives to share their predictions and trends for 2020. Robbie Hughes, Founder, and CEO, Lumeon “Following the announcement of the Trump administration's price transparency requirement – and the ensuing backlash from hospital groups – the issue of price transparency will dominate the healthcare industry next year. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit, I expect we'll see more attention around the importance of the
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CommonSpirit to Deploy Notable’s AI Platform to Personalize Medical Intake Experience
- CommonSpiritHealth partners with Notable Health to personalize and automate the medical intake process for patients and providers to improve care quality and outcomes. - Notable's intelligent platform frees time for physicians and staff to spend with patients and shortens their workdays to help prevent burnout and increase satisfaction. - During appointments, CommonSpirit Health physicians will utilize the Apple Watch wearable technology with which they can dictate a summary of the
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The Evolution of EHR Workflows: From Counterintuitive to Intuitive Tools for Care
I recall a patient who was drinking heavily, who I was unable to meaningfully convince to reduce his alcohol consumption. He felt that his drinking was no different than his work colleagues and that he did not need to make any changes. When his labs returned, not surprisingly, his GGT and AST were elevated. I turned the screen and showed him the results as well as the upward trending of the result’s graph. He didn’t say much but was clearly taking it all in. When we met next, he
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Amazon Launches EHR-Integrated, Machine Learning-Powered Transcription Service
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Amazon Transcribe Medical, a HIPAA-eligible, machine learning-powered medical transcription service that utilizes automatic speech recognition applications to offer a more efficient and accurate medical note-taking experience. - By utilizing voice-enabled technologies, Transcribe Medical automatically translates audio streams into medical speech -- designed to be deployed at scale to patients’ healthcare providers, allowing for affordable, consistent,
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Rad AI Raises $4M to Automate Repetitive Tasks for Radiologists Through Machine Learning
- Rad AI raises $4M in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund to transform radiology with the latest advances in AI to save radiologists 60+ minutes a day. - By streamlining existing workflow and automating repetitive manual tasks, Rad AI increases daily productivity while reducing radiologist burnout. - Rad AI provides more consistent radiology reports for ordering clinicians, and higher accuracy for the patients it serves. Berkeley-based Rad AI, a
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Google Adds Suki As One of Their First Clinical Digital Voice Assistant Partners
- Google has just added Suki—an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant that lifts the administrative burden from doctors—as one of Google Cloud Global Healthcare Solutions’ first clinical digital voice assistant partners. - As one of Google Cloud’s first partners offering a digital clinical assistant, Suki will also use its voice technology to develop and improve language models for physician-focused applications.Today, Suki, an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant that lifts the
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Medicomp Secures Patents to Optimize EHR Usability for Physicians
- Medicomp Systems secures its fourth patent for its method of displaying clinically relevant information within physician workflows to optimize EHR usability. - The latest patent complements Medicomp’s other patented technologies for clinical data filtering and the delivery of patient- and problem-specific data at the point of care. Medicomp Systems,
a provider of physician-driven, point of care solutions that fix EHRs,
announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark
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