Healthcare IT News July 16, 2024
Andrea Fox

The companies will further develop speech-to-text technology that takes healthcare provider’s notes and can upload key excerpts to EHR-agnostic files, while the agency accepts feedback on the sole-source solicitations.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to award new contracts to two winners of this year’s AI Tech Sprint program, designed to help reduce the burden of clinical documentation.

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The VA says it intends to award firm fixed-price contracts to Abridge AI and Nuance Communications to test and evaluate commercial, cloud-based, ambient scribe software in live VA environments.

The administration said it needs software-as-a-service tools to transcribe clinical encounters and generate notes in order to integrate with its electronic health record, and so that doctors can insert...

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