Clinicians in many medical practices and healthcare systems in the U.S. spend hours every day on administrative tasks. They document patient visits, enter medication or imaging orders, and make sure coding is accurate for billing and legal reasons. A study at Val Verde Regional Medical Center showed that clinicians saved up to 90 minutes daily by using AI-powered documentation tools. For many healthcare organizations, this saved time means they can see more patients, reduce clinician burnout, and keep more accurate records.
Different specialties like cardiology, family practice, orthopedics, psychiatry, and pediatrics have varying levels of complexity in their documentation. Also, rules like state regulations and coding standards such as ICD-10 make daily tasks harder. Using AI automation carefully in clinics can cut down the time spent and improve the quality and correctness of healthcare records.
Old dictation tools mainly turned spoken words into text, but needed lots of manual editing afterward. AI platforms now do much more than transcribing. They are built directly into EHR systems like Epic’s Hyperspace and Haiku or MEDITECH Expanse Now to allow real-time, context-aware documentation.
Avaamo’s Ambient Clinical Intelligence platform connects with Epic’s APIs to record, understand, and fill in clinical notes for many specialties. Unlike older tools, Avaamo adapts to the language and workflow of each specialty. Tests showed it needed less than 1% correction in notes. This accuracy lets clinicians enter orders for medication, imaging, and procedures during patient talks and fill in detailed data points without extra typing.
Commure’s Ambient AI works inside the MEDITECH Expanse Now app to record patient-clinician talks live. Clinicians save about 90 minutes every day. It also helps by doing coding automatically, cutting charge entry time by 83% within months for users like the Ob Hospitalist Group. With data sharing possible across over 60 EHRs, Commure supports many specialties and care places, including rural hospitals, orthopedic groups, and big hospital systems.
AI that is fully built into EHRs lets clinicians keep their usual work while automating repetitive tasks. This hidden technology reduces interruptions, letting clinicians focus more on patients instead of paperwork or screens. The use of AI also improves the completeness and consistency of notes. This supports better patient care, easier care coordination, and smoother billing and payments.
Administrators and IT managers also gain benefits. Less time on documentation means charts are done faster, often within 24 hours after visits, and billing is more accurate. Early users report better note quality with built-in help for coding like ICD-10, so compliance is easier and needs less manual checking.
Hospitals and clinics in rural areas also see gains. For example, Val Verde Regional Medical Center made big improvements by lowering documentation time, which helps fight clinician burnout and staffing shortages common in underserved locations.
Automation in healthcare covers more than note-taking now. AI tools handle many front and back office functions like scheduling patients, verifying insurance, checking in and out, managing prior authorizations, and coding. This all-in-one approach makes clinical and admin workflows smoother.
For example, Autonomous Coding uses AI to create accurate billing codes straight from clinical notes. The Ob Hospitalist Group saw an 83% drop in the time clinicians spent on entering charges within three months. This frees clinicians to care more for patients and lowers risks of errors or penalties.
Workflow automation also speeds up claims and makes sure paperwork is done right and organized. Hospitals and groups used to managing many encounters, like Hughston Clinic and DRH Health, noticed better efficiency and income after using AI systems.
Keeping data safe and private is very important when AI is used with medical records. Solutions like Avaamo and Commure follow strong privacy rules and HIPAA standards. This keeps patient information safe during AI-assisted documentation and workflow steps.
By using these AI automation tools, healthcare organizations in the U.S. can handle long-standing problems with clinician administrative tasks. These tools fit into familiar EHR systems, make clinical workflows faster, reduce delays, improve documentation, and let providers focus on what counts most: caring for patients.
Avaamo Ambient is an ambient clinical intelligence platform that integrates natively with Epic EHR using Epic’s ambient APIs. It works seamlessly across desktop (Hyperspace) and mobile (Haiku) environments to auto-populate notes, orders, and discrete data directly into Epic, enhancing real-time clinical documentation and workflow.
Unlike legacy dictation tools which mainly transcribe speech, Avaamo Ambient offers dynamic, context-aware documentation. It structures, summarizes, and interprets clinician-patient conversations in real-time, adapting to specialty-specific workflows and language for more accurate and efficient clinical documentation.
Avaamo Ambient supports a growing range of visit types across multiple specialties and subspecialties, including psychiatry and pediatrics. It adapts dynamically to the nuances and vocabulary specific to each specialty to produce high-fidelity, specialty-specific documentation.
Clinicians can auto-populate notes with minimal editing, place medication, imaging, and procedure orders directly from conversations, capture discrete data into flowsheets and problem lists, and access the AI agent fully embedded within Epic Hyperspace and Haiku native workflows.
In pilot deployments, Avaamo Ambient produced high-fidelity documentation with less than a 1% correction rate, demonstrating exceptional accuracy and reliability in clinical note generation.
Avaamo Ambient features built-in ICD-10 assistance, specialty-specific templates, and clinician-preferred writing styles, ensuring notes are relevant, standardized, and customized to user preferences while maintaining compliance with healthcare standards.
The platform is built with enterprise-grade privacy controls and adheres to HIPAA compliance standards, ensuring that patient data and clinical information are secured and protected throughout the documentation process.
This integration embeds the AI agent directly within clinicians’ existing Epic workflows, minimizing workflow disruption, reducing administrative burdens, and allowing more time for patient care through efficient, real-time documentation and order placement.
By leveraging real-time, specialty and subspecialty awareness, Avaamo Ambient tailors its documentation approach, templates, and language usage to meet the specific needs and nuances of various clinical specialties, facilitating accurate and relevant documentation.
Avaamo is committed to continuously innovating and expanding Avaamo Ambient to support a wider range of clinical workflows and specialties, aiming to make healthcare technology more invisible, assistive, and supportive for providers to focus on patient care.
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