Healthcare IT Today August 28, 2020
As some of you may know, voice assistant technology is becoming one of the hottest new applications to hit the healthcare IT world. To be sure, many institutions are still trialing the use of voice assistants in clinical settings, but this also points up that we’re still in the early phase of adoption.
Now, however, Epic has made a move that may almost singlehandedly bring such technologies into the mainstream. Working closely with Nuance, which has not surprisingly made a number of moves in this direction, Epic is now putting Hey Epic! voice assistant technology in it’s desktop EHR and not just its mobile apps.
Epic had planned to hype its new VA at HIMSS20, which was of course superseded...