HealthLeaders Media October 2, 2018
AI-powered smartphone app can reduce physician burnout, enhance patient experience.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Virtual assistant enables voice-activated EHR queries, diminishes data retrieval.
Nuance and Epic collaborate to produce app that improves physician-patient dynamic.
Vanderbilt tested the system; is further developing capabilities.
Across industries, virtual digital assistant revenue will grow to $15.8 billion by 2021.
Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, envisions a day when a voice-enabled, AI-powered virtual assistant summarizes a patient’s recent history via a smartphone before each encounter. During the visit, the Siri-like assistant will respond to her queries about information stored in the electronic health record (EHR); it will provide trending or comparative data and context; and the system will help order medication, labs, and...
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