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Suki AI's flagship product, in use at more than 250 health systems, prepares clinical notes and codes after each visit to give clinicians more time with patients and lower documentation. Punit Soni, CEO and founder, explains.  

The health system's savings have come from the platform's ability to conduct preferred product swaps, identify contract discrepancies and local contract savings, and swiftly assess shortage impacts then devise mitigation strategies.

Project Asclepius aims to modernize meds processes that are too often still manual, say leaders from Cleveland Clinic London and other organizations working to help providers streamline their pharmacies to boost patient safety and gain cost efficiencies.  

Before deploying the technology, staff was 67% core staff, 8% flexible staff and 25% agency staff. Afterward, the mix became 69% core, 23% flexible and gig staff, and only 8% agency staff.

Chief Digital and Information Officer Craig Richardville stresses three tenets: simplicity, alignment and risk sharing.

More recent developments in AI have boosted natural language processing, which will help bring the benefits of NLP to provider organizations, says Dr. Tim O'Connell, founder and CEO of emtelligent, a medical NLP company.  

Forming collaborative healthcare ecosystems between health systems, insurers and IT developers helps supports the goal of delivering cost-effective preventive care, says Adam Chee, associate professor, National University of Singapore.

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.

And technology is key, as the health system's new Consumer Data Hub provides a secure 360-degree view of the patient, while its new Enterprise Data Fabric unifies diverse data sources – offering immediate access and enabling advanced AI-powered analytics.

"We want to support our clinicians so they can sustainably serve our patients," says the health system's CHIO, who sees big potential for the EHR-linked generative AI tool to reduce administrative burden and alleviate burnout.