Advances in conversational artificial intelligence are transforming basic chatbots into intelligent virtual assistants that provide comfort and utility for healthcare consumers and the healthcare organizations that serve them. Most consumers have their minds made up about automated phone agents, and not too many people like them. Who among us hasn’t experienced the frustration of an automated phone menu when calling for a doctor's appointment or shouted “representative!” into our
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CMR Surgical Launches VR Education Solution for Soft Tissue Robotic Surgery
What You Should Know: - Today, CMR Surgical has announced a VR professional education program for its Versius® Surgical Robotic System. - The announcement marks CRM Surgical as the first soft-tissue surgical robotics system to offer VR training as part of its surgical team training pathway; giving surgical teams increased flexibility to practice their skills. VR Training for Surgical Robot The VR headset solution was
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Can AI Pave the Path to Reducing Physician Burnout?
The timing couldn’t be more critical for us to start making serious headway to reduce the growing problem of burnout among America’s physicians. In 2018, physician burnout was already at an alarming 42%, but that number is growing as COVID-19 cases surge around the country. While we are at a hopeful place in the virus’ trajectory with millions of vaccinations administered, the reality – even once we get through the pandemic – is quite grim for physicians and their
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Nuance Acquires Ambient AI Assistant for Physicians Platform Saykara
What You Should Know: - Nuance acquires ambient AI healthcare voice assistant Saykara, Inc. to bring complementary AI technology and engineering talent to conversational AI and ambient clinical intelligence market leader. - Kara’s AI-powered healthcare voice assistant can be used during a physician-patient encounter without any voice commands, promising to eliminate up to 100% of after-hours charting and records entry Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced the acquisition of
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Nuance Launches AI-Powered Patient Engagement Virtual Assistant Platform
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. launched an AI-powered
patient engagement virtual assistant platform to transform omnichannel digital
experiences for patients. - Healthcare provider organizations can now deploy
a single, common cloud-based platform to support their entire patient journey
across engagement channels using Nuance's market-leading Intelligent Engagement
AI technology - The launch comes as patients increasingly expect the
same level of engaging
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42 Recently Launched COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solutions to Know
An in-depth look at twelve recently released COVID-19 vaccine management solutions as COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed nationwide. 1. Microsoft Microsoft
launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and
Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers
provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring
of vaccine delivery. Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed over 230 emergency COVID-19
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Cerner Releases Open Call for EHR-Integrated Voice Assist Testing Partners
Cerner announces an open call for additional health systems to sign on as testing partners of their EHR-integrated Voice Assist technology. Voice Assist will allow clinicians to interact with the EHR by just using their voice. Clinicians will be able to issue voice commands to complete a range of tasks that can save significant time and reduce the administrative burden on care teams by replacing manual data documentation. How Voice Assist Technology Works Using the phrase
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GYANT Develops First-to-Market COVID-19 Vaccine Care Navigation Tool
What You Should Know: - AI-driven virtual care company, GYANT, has announced its first-to-market COVID-19 vaccine care navigation tool to help health systems anticipate novel patient needs. - GYANT Vaccine deploys as a white-labeled virtual
assistant on provider websites, mobile apps, and patient portals, managing the
patient journey from initial inquiry to post-visit follow up. GYANT, the AI-powered
virtual assistant company, today announced its first-to-market vaccine
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Monument Health Selects Nuance’s ACI Solution to Transform Physician-Patient Encounters
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that Monument
Health added another Nuance solution to their tech stack: Dragon Ambient
eXperience (DAX). - This new solution will further enable the healthcare
facility’s physicians to focus on caring for patients and not on their
computers. Nuance
Communications, Inc. announced that Monument
Health has chosen the Nuance®
Dragon Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) ambient clinical intelligence (ACI)
solution to securely capture,
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MEDITECH Launches Expanse Virtual Assistant Through Nuance
What You Should Know: - MEDITECH launches Expanse Virtual Assistant, enabling
users to quickly access, navigate, and control the EHR using advanced Nuance
Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant technology. - Physicians can leverage Expanse Virtual Assistant to
navigate and search patient charts for key areas of information including lab
results, medications, allergies, radiology images, and more. MEDITECH and Nuance Communications Inc. (Nuance),
today announced a collaboration to
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