Doctors view clinical notes generated by AI.
Provided by Athena Health
Healthcare software vendors Athena Health It said it will provide Indented AI Subscription Tool Network with over 160,000 clinicians.
Athenahealth has developed electronic health records, revenue cycle management tools and patient engagement tools for outpatient care providers, including outpatient facilities such as independent practices. The company launched a solution in October called “Environmental Notes” that allows doctors to choose between a variety of AI-powered documentation tools, and Abridge is the latest.
When doctors agree to visit records with patients, Abridge uses AI to draft clinical notes in real time. The startup is part of a hot market that explodes as health care executives search for solutions to help reduce employee burnout and tough administrative workloads.
“The market will grow rapidly over time,” Bob Segert, CEO of Athena Health, told CNBC. “Different doctors will prefer different ways of taking notes and providing information, we Hopefully, this flexibility is provided.”
Athenahealth and Abridge declined to share financial details of the partnership.
according to October research from Google cloud. And more than 90% of doctors report burning “regularly”. investigation Commissioned by Athenahealth in February last year.
Companies including Abridge Microsoft’s Suki and others say their AI transcription tools can help you. Suki and IscribeHealth have provided their tools through Athenahealth’s environmental notes solutions.
“It is a responsibility to make sure we can prove differentiation,” Abridge CEO Dr. Shiv Rao told CNBC. “We have had good luck so far in the past few years.”
Abridge has deployed its technology in more than 100 health systems in the U.S., including organizations such as Mayo Clinic, Duke Health, and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
The company announced $250 million Funding round early this month. It also introduces a new context reasoning engine that extracts information related to the best practices of specific clinicians and their clinics. Abridge’s Rao said the technology will be provided to Athena Health clinicians.
Currently, Athena Health’s environmental note-taking solutions currently offer limited capacity, but the company says it plans to expand clinician availability by 2025.
“The more they try, the more they like it, and I think as that goes on, we’re going to see a pretty steep adoption curve,” Segert said.
