Becker's Healthcare February 12, 2025
Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is piloting the use of an artificial intelligence-powered mobile app designed to reduce nurses’ documentation burdens.
The health system partnered with its enterprise information services team and Aiva Health to develop the Aiva Nurse Assistant app, which is being tested on a 48-bed surgical unit. The app allows nurses to dictate patient notes via voice commands. It then transcribes the information and maps it into the appropriate fields in Epic, which clinicians validate the data before submission.
Cedars-Sinai is the first health system in the country to pilot this technology in a real-world setting. So far, early results have been promising.
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