Workweek August 5, 2023
Amazon Web Services launched HealthScribe, a generative AI service that can listen to physician-patient conversations and create text-based summaries or notes.
It was only a matter of time before Amazon followed competitors like Microsoft to enter the AI-backed clinical documentation arena. And we kind of got the hint that HealthScribe would launch back in April, after hearing about the 3M and AWS partnership to develop ambient documentation.
In this article, I’ll describe HealthScribe’s features, highlight the clinical documentation market, and provide my take on Amazon’s latest healthcare move.
THE DEETS
Amazon Web Services HealthScribe uses speech recognition and generative AI to produce transcripts and summaries of physician-patient conversations that can be added to the EHR note. As of now, HealthScribe...