STAT+: HCA to expand the use of AI tool to automate clinical documentation in ER
HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, is planning to expand the use of an artificial intelligence tool to document doctor-patient interactions in its emergency rooms.
The plans for a broader roll out of the AI tool across its network comes nearly a year after the 184-hospital health system started working with medical documentation company Augmedix to pilot its ambient scribe technology at a handful of ER departments within the HCA network.
“The whole goal here was to develop a product that was affordable so that HCA can deploy it across their entire system, their entire network,” Augmedix CEO Manny Krakaris told STAT. An HCA spokesperson confirmed that the hospital chain plans to expand the use of Augmedix Go to more hospitals but did not specify a timeline for the rollout.
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