A Unique View on AI Assistants in Healthcare and Ambient Clinical Voice

As many of you know, I’ve been a big fan of ambient clinical voice for a while.  Although, I’m really just a fan of relieving the documentation burden that the healthcare industrial complex has placed on doctors.  That’s the real problem and ambient clinical voice is aiming to improve that situation.  Of course, with ambient clinical voice, we all know that at least for now ambient clinical voice solutions are more like a remote scribe that’s enabled by AI vs a true AI solution.  Will AI improve enough to get there so prices can drop dramatically?  That’s the million (maybe billion) dollar question.

Taking a different approach to this problem is the Suki AI Assistant.  Similar to ambient clinical voice, it’s a voice powered solution.  However, it uses a mix of real time dictation, macros, and even requests for previous documentation along with touch and tap to automate those things doctors do over and over again.  Better than my explanation, check out a demo of Suki here.

Given my passion for trying to understand how we can reduce the clinician documentation burden, I sat down with Punit Soni, CEO of Suki, to talk about their approach to this problem.  Given Soni’s work previously at Google and then an e-commerce giant in India, he brings a unique outsider perspective to the problem with some great technical skill.

In the interview, Soni shares what the workflow would look like for a doctor that uses Suki.  We also dive into EHR integration and how deeply Suki is integrated with EHR software.  Plus, we discuss how it handles things like granular data and whether that granular data is available to be used granularly in the EHR.  Finally, we ask Soni how Suki compares to other ambient clinical voice solutions out there.  He does a great job describing the challenges that ambient clinical voice faces.

Check out the video interview below to learn more about Suki’s AI assistant and ambient clinical voice:

Learn more about Suki: https://www.suki.ai/

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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