This year's HIMSS conference in Las Vegas was wrapped on Thursday, allowing healthcare technology leaders around the world to convene and share ideas. As always, there were many news announcements at the event.
Below are six notable announcements made during the meeting.
Epic says it's expanding beyond the EHR
EPIC has announced that it is developing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for the healthcare industry. This is a move to directly compete with companies such as Oracle and Workday.
The company said the ERP system will help decision makers by providing insights derived from financial, operational and clinical data.
Baxter releases wearable devices to help clinicians
Baxter has debuted wearable devices that seek to promote more efficient communication between care team members.
Badge-like devices come with Baxter's AI assistant named Scotty. While wearing the device, members of the care team can say things like, “Call the patient nurse in Hayscotty, Room 105” or “Call the patient nurse in Hayscotty to activate the patient's risk of falls in the 102 room.”
Microsoft will deploy Copilot
Microsoft has launched Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant with ambient entry technology, a voice dictionary and generation AI capabilities.
The company says the tool will be useful for clinicians with a variety of tasks, collecting data about a particular patient or condition, sending referral letters, and generating documents following patient encounters.
Intersystem launches a new EHR
InterSystem has announced a new EHR system with AI capabilities. The EHR, named Intellicare, is designed for health systems during the digital conversion, and is trying to eliminate “legacy systems constraints,” the company says.
“By building AI-based EHR solutions, healthcare providers are focusing on important things: reducing facial time with patients and screening times.”
Zoom announces clinician platform and AI companion
Zoom has launched a new platform called Zoom Workplace for clinicians and a beta program for new AI companions.
The new clinician platform that integrates with EHR is primarily using scribe techniques around it to reduce the administrative burden of providers. Sold as an add-on to a new platform, AI companions are designed to speed up administrative tasks such as documenting, scheduling, and care coordination.
Talkdesk debuts AI Agent Suite
Call centre software company Talkdesk has announced an AI agent for healthcare companies. These agents can help patients schedule visits, access EHR account information, escalate to live agents if patients get upset.
Each healthcare customer can customize these agents for a particular organization and desired use case, the company said.
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