Becker's Healthcare February 25, 2025
The financial return on investment on an AI assistant for nurses being tested at Los Angeles-based Cedars Sinai has been reduced overtime, while the main focus has been improved clinician well-being, an executive told Becker’s.
Cedars-Sinai is the first health system to try out the Nurse Assistant app from tech startup Aiva Health, which transcribes nurses’ voice dictation of patient encounters then uses the information to fill out fields in the Epic EHR. Becker’s caught up with Rachel Coren, vice president and associate CIO at Cedars-Sinai, about how the tool has been working so far.
Question: How does Cedars-Sinai measure the success of the pilot program, and what key performance indicators are being tracked?
Rachel Coren: Our clinical staff adoption...