Becker's Healthcare September 12, 2024
Renton, Wash.-based Providence has expanded the use of its MedPearl digital referral assistant to more than 7,000 providers.
Integrated into the health system’s Epic EHR, MedPearl generates recommended referrals for providers based on a patient’s condition.
“When we see patients, we want to do what’s right for them,” Jessica Schlicher, MD, chief medical officer for virtual care and digital health at Providence, told Becker’s. “But in family medicine I have to know, from birth to death, what’s the right thing to do right now, and I have 15 minutes to do it.”
MedPearl’s algorithms dispense “pearls” of medical wisdom — with an average read time of two minutes or less — on more than 700 conditions. The educational tool was...
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