Oracle this week announced that its new Clinical Digital Assistant – featuring synthetic AI, multimodal voice, and other navigation tools – is available to help emergency physicians streamline clinical documentation their sieve.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
Deployed in Oracle Health’s electronic health records, the AI tool incorporates conversation-based note generation into clinical automation – and can recommend clinical actions at the point of entry, the company said. take care of.
According to Oracle Health, the Clinical Digital Assistant also helps automate referrals, prescribe medications, and schedule follow-up labs and appointments, helping to improve workflow efficiency.
For example, its voice capabilities allow providers to access information from a patient’s medical history by asking – reducing the need to navigate through drop-down menus or scroll through EHR screens.
Meanwhile, during patient encounters, the tool captures clinical notes using the provider’s preferred templates, saving hours of documentation time every day.
Clinical digital assistant reduces clicks and allows new data to be synchronized with a patient’s existing EHR without copying and pasting – reducing manual work that contributes to clinician burnout strength. However, providers still monitor notes, which can be reviewed, modified, and approved via their computer or mobile device.
Oracle Health said clinicians at more than a dozen early adoption sites averaged more than 4½ minutes per patient and reduced the time needed to chart by 20-40%.
James Little, primary care physician in Jackson, St. “Since the 1990s, EHRs have turned physicians into keyboard addicts,” says Wyoming-based John’s Health. “Our physicians using this technology have been able to record their patient visits in real time, allowing them to leave at the end of the day with good, quality notes. Time spent After-hours note-taking is no longer necessary.”
“I can just talk and focus on my patients, while in the background, the system will record all details, notes and next step actions.” “Not only does this provide a better experience for me and my patients, but it also significantly reduces the time I spend checking in for appointments or taking updated notes after hours.”
BIGGER TREND
Clinician burnout is at an all-time high and is starting to have real-world effects on provider workforces and even patient safety .
The burden of documentation is severely impacting the care experience of doctors and nurses. Innovative AI, voice technologies such as natural language processing and other clinical support tools from Oracle and other companies, can help streamline repetitive charting tasks but essential, reduce burnout and even increase revenue.
As genAI continues to grow and find its way into clinical workflows at providers across the country, doctors and nurses are also starting to get involved. But automation tools need to be properly calibrated and human oversight is essential.
ON PROFILE
“Students spend up to 20-35% of their time on administrative work – this is unsustainable and contributes to unemployment,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences. exhaustion”. “We need providers to focus on patient needs.”
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Mike Miliard is the executive editor of Healthcare IT News
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