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A look at HCA and Google's AI partnership

Dec 14, 2023 - beckershospitalreview.com
HCA Healthcare, based in Nashville, has been conducting pilot tests with Google's healthcare-based AI tools, including Augmedix, in four emergency department hospital sites. Augmedix, powered by natural language processing and Google Cloud's MedLM on Vertex AI, transforms clinician-patient interactions into medical notes, which are then reviewed and finalized by physicians before being transferred into HCA's EHR system. The health system plans to expand its use of the tool, which could autonomously generate over 50% of a note without requiring assistance from providers.

In addition, HCA is exploring the use of Google's MedLM to create a handoff tool for nurses, designed to analyze the EHR and extract relevant information for nurses during shift changes. The current handoff process is labor-intensive and challenging for nurses, and automating it could significantly benefit staff. Initial responses to MedLM from providers have been positive.

Key takeaways:

  • HCA Healthcare has been conducting pilots with Google's healthcare-based AI tools, including Augmedix, in four emergency department hospital sites.
  • The Augmedix platform, powered by Google Cloud's MedLM on Vertex AI, transforms clinician-patient interactions into medical notes, which are then reviewed and finalized by physicians before being transferred into HCA's EHR system.
  • HCA Healthcare plans to broaden its utilization of the tool in the coming year, with the aim of the AI creating over 60% of the medical note autonomously, reducing the time physicians spend on clerical paperwork.
  • HCA is also exploring the use of Google's MedLM to create a handoff tool for nurses to automate the labor-intensive process of conveying pertinent information during shift changes.
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