Becker's Healthcare November 1, 2024
Stanford (Calif.) Health Care is collaborating with Microsoft and Epic to develop an AI tool for ambient listening in clinical settings to streamline nursing documentation.
“When Microsoft approached us for the opportunity to partner with Epic to improve the work of nursing, we jumped right in,” Gretchen Brown, MSN, RN, chief nursing information officer at Stanford Health Care, told Becker’s. “As a Magnet facility, that’s what we should be doing. We should be leaning in and helping to develop with the resources that we have to better the experience for nurses.”
The initiative aims to reduce the time nurses spend on documentation and, according to Ms. Brown, enable clinicians to reconnect with why they entered healthcare: focusing on meaningful connections...