clinical documentation

An AI scribe runs in the background during a clinic consultation
By  Adam Ang 08:40 pm April 6, 2025
Asan Medical Center has developed a voice-based clinical documentation system powered by a large language model. HOW IT WORKS The system automatically records and analyses conversations – including identifying symptoms and classifying diseases – between and among staff and patients in near real-time. It also creates patients' medical records on the spot which are automatically saved to AMIS 3.0,...
Interface of Heidi AI scribe
By  Adam Ang 07:58 pm March 6, 2025
Australian startup Heidi Health has raised another $16.6 million in Series A funding from a round led by Headline. The follow-on investing round was also joined by Local Globe, Anthology (Menlo Ventures and Anthropic), as well as existing investors Blackbird, HESTA, Possible Ventures and Archangel Ventures.  Formerly Oscer, Heidi relaunched in 2024 with a customisable AI-powered clinical...
Amit Khanna, SVP and GM of Salesforce
By  Jessica Hagen 10:25 am February 28, 2025
Salesforce announced the launch of Agentforce for Health, an AI-driven platform that automates tasks like appointment booking, benefits verification and clinical trial matching. The tech giant is also partnering with healthcare technology company Athenahealth to streamline workflows, such as summarizing patient histories and processing prescription refills. Amit Khanna, senior vice president and...
Executives in a meeting
By  Anthony Vecchione 11:17 am December 27, 2024
Healthcare software company Commure announced it acquired digital care navigation platform Memora Health. Commure provides a FHIR-compliant development platform for health systems, vendors and startups to build healthcare applications and software. The company offers a suite of products including Scribe, automatic clinical documentation powered by AI; Strongline, wearable duress badges that allow...
Healthcare provider with a patient and their caregiver
By  Jessica Hagen 01:22 pm December 18, 2024
Suki, maker of an AI-backed healthcare voice tool, announced it is collaborating with Google Cloud to enhance its Suki Assistant tool using Google's Vertex AI platform.  Google's Vertex AI is a search engine that allows organizations to build their own generative AI-enabled search engines. It enables companies to search patient data, including clinical sources like FHIR data and clinical notes....
Doctor examining a patient
By  Jessica Hagen 01:44 pm October 10, 2024
Suki, maker of an AI-backed healthcare voice tool, announced it raised $70 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raise to $165 million. Hedosophia led the round, with additional investment from Venrock and participation by existing investors Flare Capital, March Capital, inHealth Ventures and Breyer Capital. WHAT IT DOES Suki's offerings include Suki Assistant, an AI-enabled voice tool...
A doctor reviewing a patient record on a desktop computer
By  Adam Ang 09:25 pm August 13, 2024
The Royal Australian College of GPs, the peak body for general practices in Australia, has released guidance for practitioners looking to adopt AI scribes to support clinical documentation. An AI scribe captures audio speech from a clinical encounter to convert it into text that becomes part of a patient's health record.  WHAT IT'S ABOUT RACGP initially suggests developing a policy on...
Healthcare provider wearing scrubs with a stethoscope around their neck while walking down the hallway of a health center
By  Jessica Hagen 01:15 pm July 23, 2024
AI-enabled medical documentation company Abridge, health IT giant Epic and healthcare system Mayo Clinic are partnering to create a genAI documentation platform that integrates Abridge's tools into Epic's EHR for Mayo Clinic nurses. Abridge, founded in 2018, offers an AI tool that records and transcribes conversations between providers and patients. It then organizes and summarizes that...
A doctor reviewing a patient's scan
By  Adam Ang 03:42 am June 27, 2024
Cloudphysician, a provider of ICU technology solutions in India, has scored $10.5 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners.  The round was also joined by Panthera Peak and Elevar Equity – from which it also raised $4 million in Series A funding in 2021.  WHAT IT DOES Established in 2017, the startup offers a smart ICU and emergency department system called RADAR. It features four AI-...
Doctor sitting in an exam room with two patients
By  Jessica Hagen 02:47 pm May 14, 2024
San Francisco-based AI-enabled ambient automation platform Augmedix saw its stock price drop more than 40% after reporting it observed a slowdown in provider purchasing commitments and downgrading its 2024 full-year revenue outlook from $60 to $62 million to $52 to $55 million.  Still, the company beat estimates of its revenue growth, with a 40% increase in the first quarter, to $13.5 million,...