You don't want to miss 3 announcements for the EPIC annual meeting
This week, EPIC hosted its annual user group meeting, a multi-day gathering that brings together thousands of healthcare leaders at the EHR Giant headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin.
During the conference, EPIC announced that it is developing hundreds of different AI robots to assist clinicians, payers and patients. Here are three of the most famous projects the company teased at the conference.
Artificial Intelligence Chart
Epic is working with long-term partner Microsoft to build AI charting tools. The company is seeking to offer its own local documentation solutions in the ocean of third-party models, including Microsoft's Dragon Ambient AI tools, and tools for sale by companies such as Abridge, Ambience Healthcare, Deepscribe and Suki.
The new tool is expected to be available early next year and will automatically generate clinical annotations in Epic's workflow. It will use Epic's Haiku and Canto technology to record patient conversations, and then use Microsoft's Dragon Ambient AI system for dynamic transcription and annotation.
“In March, we introduced Microsoft Dragon Copilot — a comprehensive clinical AI assistant designed to streamline workflows and enhance the clinical-patient experience. We're proud to be collaborating with Epic to explore how we can bring our core Dragon ambient AI technology to Epic's new AI Charting capability to further improve care delivery,” Joe Petro, corporate vice president of Microsoft health and life sciences division, said in a statement.
Universe AI
EPIC is creating a generated AI model based on its COSMOS dataset that covers over 16 billion clinical encounters from 300 million people.
The company is developing a “cosmic medical activity transformer” or comet. According to a new report from Epic, Microsoft and Yale Medical College, the model is being trained on data from hundreds of millions of patients, which will allow it to discover patterns of disease progression and predict what will happen next in the patient care process.
Epic says the model is unique because it is based on real clinical data (rather than internet text), making it more useful for clinicians and health systems.
“Enable personalized medicine and [real world evidence] Based on the large scale of routine clinical decisions, we need tools that can learn from comprehensive patient records and have the flexibility to answer complex medical queries to retrieve the correct ones [real world evidence] Reports support clinical decision-making in various settings. ”
Art, Penny & Emmie
Epic has announced some new AI assistants on its platform, each with its own human name.
The tool for clinicians, called ART, is designed to present a portion of the document and provide diagnostic insights during the patient’s visit. The tool is designed for revenue cycle management, called Penny, automatically encodes and rejects appeals.
EPIC's new patient AI assistant, called Emmie, can help users arrange, access preparations, experimental results explanations and general health advice.
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