HIMSS23: Augmedix secures financing, tech tie-up with HCA

HCA Healthcare is pilot testing Augmedix’s voice-enabled medical dictation software in two hospital emergency departments with plans to expand the tech partnership.

The hospital giant is collaborating with Augmedix to advance the development of AI-powered ambient documentation products for acute care clinicians to help streamline hospital workflows, the companies said in a press release.

HCA Healthcare currently is testing out the company’s technology stack, which includes automatic speech recognition technology and natural processing algorithms, in two ERs and plans to expand the pilot in emergency departments in two additional hospitals in the first half of the year.

Augmedix’s technology converts natural clinician-patient conversations into medical notes...