This week, Epic hosted its annual Customers Group Assembly, a multi-day gathering that introduced collectively 1000’s of healthcare leaders on the EHR large’s headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin.
Throughout the assembly, Epic introduced that it’s creating a whole bunch of various AI bots to help clinicians, payers and sufferers. Under are the three most notable initiatives that the corporate teased at its convention.
AI charting
Epic is constructing an AI charting device in collaboration with its longtime companion Microsoft. The corporate is in search of to supply its personal native documentation answer amongst a sea of third-party fashions — together with Microsoft’s Dragon Ambient AI device, in addition to the instruments bought by corporations like Abridge, Atmosphere Healthcare, DeepScribe and Suki.
This new device, which is predicted to be accessible early subsequent yr, will hearken to affected person visits and mechanically generate scientific notes inside Epic’s workflow. It is going to use Epic’s Haiku and Canto expertise to report affected person conversations, after which Microsoft’s Dragon Ambient AI system to energy transcription and be aware era.
“In March, we launched Microsoft Dragon Copilot — a complete scientific AI assistant designed to streamline workflows and improve the clinician-patient expertise. We’re proud to be collaborating with Epic to discover how we will deliver our core Dragon ambient AI expertise to Epic’s new AI Charting functionality to additional enhance care supply,” Joe Petro, company vp of Microsoft well being and life sciences division, stated in a assertion.
Cosmos AI
Epic is making a generative AI mannequin based mostly on its Cosmos dataset, which spans over 16 billion deidentified scientific encounters from 300 million folks.
The corporate is creating “the Cosmos Medical Occasion Transformer,” or CoMET. This mannequin is being skilled on information from a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of sufferers, which can permit it to identify patterns in how diseases progress, in addition to predict what would possibly occur subsequent through the course of a affected person’s care, in line with a brand new report from researchers at Epic, Microsoft and Yale College of Medication.
Epic stated this mannequin is exclusive as a result of it’s based mostly on actual scientific information — not web textual content — making it extra helpful for clinicians and well being methods.
“To allow customized drugs and [real world evidence] at scale for routine scientific decision-making, we’d like instruments that may be taught from the built-in affected person report and might reply complicated medical inquiries with flexibility, retrieving the proper [real world evidence] to help scientific decision-making throughout all kinds of contexts,” the report learn.
Artwork, Penny & Emmie
Epic introduced some new AI assistants throughout its platform, every with its personal human identify.
The clinician-facing device, named Artwork, is constructed to recommend elements of documentation and provides diagnostic insights throughout affected person visits. The device designed for income cycle administration, referred to as Penny, automates coding and denials appeals.
Epic’s new patient-forward AI assistant, named Emmie, helps customers with scheduling, go to preparations, lab end result explanations and normal well being recommendation.
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