Fierce Healthcare August 29, 2023
Earlier this year, HCA Healthcare launched a pilot program that equipped 75 emergency room physicians at four hospitals with Google’s AI technology, utilizing an ongoing partnership with Google Cloud and Augmedix, a tech company specializing in ambient medical documentation.
Now, the national provider is weighing up further expansion of the collaboration to incorporate the tech giant’s generative AI tools in more hospitals later this year.
Physicians in the pilot program used the tools to document medical information faster than ever, a gripe medical professionals have long held. The physicians use the Augmedix app, a hands-free device, to create medical notes from conversations with patients. After text-to-speech processing, the data are converted to medical notes and reviewed before...