Healthcare DIVE October 17, 2019
Dive Brief:
- Microsoft is partnering with clinical documentation company Nuance Communications to accelerate the development of ambient sensing tech, AI software that understands patient-clinician conversations and automatically integrates that data into the patient’s medical record. Nuance will transfer its internal infrastructure and hosted products to Azure as part of the agreement, which comes as Microsoft ramps up its presence in healthcare.
- Burlington, Massachusetts-based Nuance’s product is called Ambient Clinical Intelligence and is built on Microsoft Azure, the tech giant’s cloud computing service. The two plan to work with long-term EHR partners like Epic in further developing the technology.
- The two companies plan to bring the tech to an initial set of five physician specialties early next year: orthopaedics,...
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