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Vendor Snapshots: AI Powered Clinical Documentation

About Our AI-Powered Clinical Documentation Series

AI-powered physician documentation tools are one of the most promising applications for artificial intelligence – particularly generative AI – in healthcare. These tools are primed for adoption due to their impact on improved efficiency, positive user feedback, and potential to transform clinical workflows. AI-powered documentation tools leverage ambient listening technology to automate and streamline the process of creating clinical notes.

Typical AI-Powered Clinical Documentation Workflow

In the following snapshots, you'll find:

  • Key insights on the current state of AI-powered physician documentation​

  • Overviews of market leading vendors in the AI-powered physician documentation space​

  • Health system executive feedback on featured vendors from our "Candid Conversations" series

Vendor snapshots:
  1. Abridge - Uniquely founded by a practicing cardiologist, Abridge has created a clinician-tailored generative AI solution to reduce documentation burden. Over the past two years it has seen rapid growth in funding, with investors seeing enormous growth potential.

  2. Microsoft/Nuance - Initially founded as an imaging and speech technology developer, Nuance has produced one of the most widely used clinical documentation solutions in Dragon Ambient eXperience™ (DAX) Copilot. Its acquisition by Microsoft made it one of the most popular clinical documentation solutions on the market.

  3. Suki - Suki prides itself on making healthcare technology "invisible" to physicians in order to maximize their level of bedside care. It has received major funding over the past two years to drive tech advancements and expand on existing partnerships.

  4. Augmedix - Augmedix works to improve physician-patient connections through the use of non-invasive technology. After being acquired by Commure, Augmetix has positioned itself to see rapid growth and have established themselves in the competitive clinical documentation space.

  5. Ambience - Ambience was designed to not only capture patient encounters, but also support coding processes and improve clinical documentation integrity (CDI). It has recently received significant funding, led by OpenAI Startup fund and Kleiner Perkins.