18 Sep Implementing Med-Tech Solutions Beyond AI (Part 4 of Blog Series)
PART 4 OF MIMI’S 5-PART BLOG SERIES ON “THE 4 TOP ACCELERATORS OF HEALTHCARE’S DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION”
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The role of INNOVATIVE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY – beyond AI – was not forgotten in Becker’s Health IT “20 bold predictions for health IT in the next 5 years.”
As Stephanie Lahr, MD, CIO and CMIO of Monument Health (in South Dakota) reflected, “an example of this technology would be the Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) solution. It not only captures each patient-physician encounter using sophisticated speech recognition technology, but also updates the EHR automatically, reducing administrative burden and allowing the provider to focus on the patient and not on their computer.” It turns out that Nuance, in partnership with Microsoft, has developed a suite of specialty documenting solutions to mitigate what the World Medical Association is calling a “pandemic of physician burnout, with 51 percent of physicians reporting frequent or constant feelings of burnout caused by a staggering administrative workload of electronic paperwork to document their patient care.”
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Patrick McCarthy, MD, VP, Northwestern Medical Group at Northwestern Medicine (in Illinois), is very enthusiastic about the applications of AI that “will be widespread from transforming our most basic tool the stethoscope, to wider distribution of advanced imaging acquisition and interpretation, and applying machine learning for individual patients to identify rare diseases, predict procedural risk, and determine best care pathways. A real-world example of AI-enhanced tools for clinical use is Eko. According to Dr. McCarthy, their suite of “advanced stethoscopes are powered by advanced machine learning algorithms that are FDA-cleared to detect AFib and heart murmurs. This type of practical AI analysis will greatly improve patient care, specifically by the early detection of the leading cause of death in the U.S., heart disease.”
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