Becker's Healthcare June 21, 2024
Better eye contact with patients. Less time looking at the computer during appointments. More thorough EHR notes.
These are some of the benefits Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health has experienced since implementing an artificial intelligence “co-pilot” for clinical documentation in January.
The technology is now being used by more than 150 clinicians a month at the health system, with over 10,000 patient encounters being documented by AI in May and upward of 25,000 total since the start of 2024. The providers employ the DAX co-pilot from Microsoft subsidiary Nuance that is integrated into Epic Haiku, the EHR vendor’s mobile app.
“This is, frankly, how we’re going to be doing our notes in the future,” Jennifer Vogt, MD, a...