HIT Consultant November 1, 2024
What You Should Know:
– OpenNotes, an advocate for healthcare transparency, and Abridge, an AI-powered clinical documentation platform, have joined forces to improve patient engagement and understanding through enhanced AI-generated visit summaries.
– The collaboration, part of the new OpenNotes Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), will leverage patient feedback and AI to create more effective and accessible patient-facing documentation.
Improving Patient Understanding with AI
Abridge’s AI platform automates clinical documentation, generating structured clinical notes and patient-friendly visit summaries. These summaries are designed to be easily understandable, providing key information such as diagnoses, medications, and next steps in care.
Through this partnership, OpenNotes will conduct a study to evaluate the effectiveness of Abridge’s AI-generated summaries. The...