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Duke Health is the latest health system to partner with Abridge on generative AI for clinical documentation.
Duke Health, headquartered in North Carolina, and Abridge signed a company-wide agreement in late December to deploy the AI platform to 5,000 clinicians in more than 150 primary and specialty clinics.
The news was announced on Thursday.
The platform will be used in Duke Health Integrated Practice and Duke Primary Care clinics to document patient-clinician conversations during appointments. Clinicians review notes and can edit them before integrating them into the patient’s record and EHR.
The AI platform is designed to help reduce burnout by reducing the time clinicians spend on documentation.
“As a leading academic medical center, the drive to improve patient care is part of Duke Health’s DNA,” said Dr. Matthew Barber, interim senior vice president of Duke Health Integrated Practice. “With this platform at our disposal, our clinicians are able to focus more on patients and less on documentation, restoring what the patient-clinician relationship is supposed to be.” »
Additionally, Duke is exploring opportunities with Abridge to co-develop other clinical applications using ambient AI, Abridge said.
WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
Many health systems use Abridge for generative AI in clinical conversations.
Abridge’s platform is deployed across all Johns Hopkins Medicine healthcare sites and specialties. In early December, Abridge finalized the agreement with Johns Hopkins Medicine to implement the ambient AI platform across its 6,700 clinicians, six hospitals and 40 patient care centers.
In August, Kaiser Permanente signed a contract with Abridge to make AI clinical documentation available to its 40 hospitals and more than 600 physician practices.
THE Mayo ClinicEpic and Abridge partnered in July on an AI generative ambient documentation workflow for nurses.
Abridge, founded in 2018, has also partnered with Wolters Kluwer, OpenNotes and other healthcare organizations.
Earlier this year, Abridge announced $150 million in Series C funding, which includes a strategic investment from NVIDIA, a California-based company that develops and deploys autonomous machines and edge computing applications powered by AI .
THE BIGGEST TREND
Other health systems using Abridge’s AI platform include Corewell Health, Riverside Health, Reid Health, University of Vermont Health Network, CHRISTUS Health, Sutter Health, Yale New Haven Health System, UCI Health , Emory Healthcare, the University of Kansas Health System and UPMC.
A pilot program using the generative AI platform showed improved patient satisfaction and clinician experiences at the University of Chicago Medicine, according to Abridge.
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