Artificial Intelligence

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Meanwhile, it's already finding success with AI-enabled patient portals – and ambient scribing is showing big promise too. The Baltimore health system's digital health physician leader explains.

Moving forward, it's working with Epic on EHR chart summarization via artificial intelligence, with an initial focus on inpatient hospital course summary. The top digital health MD tells all.  

Talkdesk can integrate AI with EHRs so patients don't have to repeat information and agents can express empathy in their calls, explains Patty Hayward, the company's healthcare and life sciences GM.

Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, senior medical director of digital health and innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses how artificial intelligence helps gain efficiencies throughout the patient journey and enable advances in individual health tracking.

Artificial intelligence can streamline the patient journey and bring about real individual health tracking, contends Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, senior medical director of digital health and innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine.  

S.A.R.A.H. is a 24/7 digital health promoter prototype, available by video or text in eight languages, trained with biological artificial intelligence to provide health information, including mental health resources.

It leverages Microsoft Azure GPT-4 to analyse and summarise verbal information and make automatic recommendations.

Through bidirectional integration with Epic, the Chicago-based health system will trial Suki's AI assistance across workflows in 30 specialties, which could achieve a 72% reduction in time spent on clinical documentation, the company said.

Hours a day in different workflows on multiple systems leads to burnout. Nicole Rogas, president of symplr, explains how the company consolidates systems and uses AI to automate workflows - leading to more time for patients.