A doctor looks at an AI-generated clinical note.

医生查看由人工智能生成的临床记录。

Courtesy of Athenahealth

由Athenahealth提供

Health-care software vendor

医疗软件供应商

Athenahealth

雅典娜健康

on Tuesday said it will offer

周二表示将提供

Abridge's

Abridge的

artificial intelligence

人工智能

scribing tool

书写工具

to its network of more than 160,000 clinicians.

向其超过160,000名临床医生的网络提供。

Athenahealth has developed an electronic health record, revenue cycle management tools and patient engagement tools for ambulatory care providers, which include outpatient facilities like independent practices. The company introduced a solution called Ambient Notes in October that allows doctors to choose between various AI-powered documentation tools, and Abridge is the latest addition. .

Athenahealth 为包括独立诊所等门诊设施在内的非住院护理供应商开发了电子健康记录、收入周期管理工具和患者参与工具。该公司于十月推出了一款名为 Ambient Notes 的解决方案，该方案允许医生在各种 AI 驱动的文档工具之间进行选择，而 Abridge 是最新的补充。

Abridge uses AI to draft clinical notes in real time as doctors consensually record their visits with patients. The startup is part of a red-hot market that has exploded as health-care executives search for solutions to help reduce staff burnout and daunting administrative workloads.

Abridge使用人工智能在医生与患者就诊时实时起草临床笔记。这家初创公司处于一个火热的市场中，随着医疗保健高管们寻找减少员工倦怠和繁重行政工作量的解决方案，这个市场已经迅速扩张。

'The market is going to evolve rather rapidly, there are going to be winners and losers over time,' Athenahealth CEO Bob Segert told CNBC. 'Different physicians will prefer different ways that notes are taken and that the information is delivered, and we want to be able to provide that flexibility.'.

“市场将迅速演变，随着时间的推移会有赢家和输家，”Athenahealth首席执行官鲍勃·塞格特告诉CNBC。“不同的医生会偏好不同的笔记记录方式和信息传递方式，我们希望能够提供这种灵活性。”

Athenahealth and Abridge declined to share the financial details of the partnership.

Athenahealth 和 Abridge 拒绝分享该合作伙伴关系的财务细节。

Clinicians spend nearly nine hours a week on documentation, according to an

根据一项研究，临床医生每周花费近九个小时进行文档记录，

October study

十月研究

from

从

Google

谷歌

Cloud. And more than 90% of physicians report feeling burned out on a 'regular basis,' according to

云。而且，超过90%的医生报告说他们经常感到精疲力竭，

a survey

一项调查

commissioned by Athenahealth last February.

由Athenahealth于去年二月委托。

Companies including Abridge,

包括Abridge在内的公司，

Microsoft's

微软的

Nuance Communications, Suki and others say their AI scribing tools can help. Suki and iScribeHealth already offer their tools through Athenahealth's Ambient Notes solution.

Nuance Communications、Suki 等公司表示，他们的 AI 记录工具可以提供帮助。Suki 和 iScribeHealth 已经通过 Athenahealth 的 Ambient Notes 解决方案提供他们的工具。

'It'll be incumbent upon us to make sure that we're able to demonstrate differentiation,' Abridge CEO Dr. Shiv Rao told CNBC. 'So far, we've had good luck these last few years doing that.'

“我们必须确保能够证明自己的差异化，”Abridge首席执行官希夫·拉奥博士告诉CNBC。“到目前为止，过去几年我们在这方面做得还不错。”

Abridge has deployed its technology across more than 100 health systems in the U.S., including organizations like the Mayo Clinic, Duke Health and Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Abridge 已在美国的 100 多个医疗系统中部署了其技术，包括梅奥诊所、杜克健康和约翰霍普金斯医学等机构。

The company announced a

公司宣布了

$250 million

2.5亿美元

funding round earlier this month. It also unveiled a new Contextual Reasoning Engine that can pull information that's relevant to a specific clinician and their clinic's best practices. Abridge's Rao said that technology will be available to Athenahealth clinicians.

本月初的融资回合。该公司还推出了一款新的上下文推理引擎，可以提取与特定临床医生及其诊所最佳实践相关的信息。Abridge的拉奥表示，这项技术将提供给Athenahealth的临床医生。

Athenahealth's Ambient Notes solution is currently available in a limited capacity, but the company said it plans to widen availability for clinicians through 2025.

Athenahealth的Ambient Notes解决方案目前仅有限度地提供，但该公司表示计划在2025年之前扩大对临床医生的可用性。

'The more they try it, the more they like it, and I think we're going to see a pretty steep adoption curve as this continues to move forward,' Segert said.

“他们越尝试，就越喜欢它。我认为随着这一进程的推进，我们会看到一个相当陡峭的采用曲线，”塞格特说。