HCA Co-Developing Multi-Specialty, EHR-Agnostic Ambient AI Platform
HCA Healthcare Inc., one of the nation’s largest providers of healthcare services with 188 hospitals and approximately 2,400 ambulatory sites of care, is making an effort to integrate AI into healthcare and transform the way patient visits are conducted and documented across the HCA Healthcare network.
HCA is working with vendor Commure to develop and deploy an ambient AI platform across its network. Commure recently acquired ambient AI company Augmedix.
The multi-specialty, EHR-agnostic platform, co-developed by Commure and HCA Healthcare, is designed to support critical workflows in emergency departments, hospitalist operations, and ambulatory care. This solution is the product of a collaborative effort between Commure’s engineers, the Augmedix team led by company founder Ian Shakil, HCA Healthcare’s Care Transformation & Innovation department, and HCA Healthcare’s physicians.
“Our collaboration with Commure and Augmedix is bringing time-saving and innovative solutions directly to the hands of our healthcare providers,” said Michael Schlosser, M.D., M.B.A., senior vice president of care transformation and innovation at HCA Healthcare, in a statement. “By working directly with providers to integrate AI into their workflows, we expect to free up our healthcare professionals to spend more time focused on patient care, which is our ultimate goal.”
The planned deployment of Commure’s ambient AI suite is expected to drive improvements in physician productivity, patient care quality, and healthcare system efficiencies.
Commure, based in Mountain View, Calif., is backed by firms such as General Catalyst, HCA Healthcare and Sequoia Capital Its offerings range from ambient AI and staff duress alerting to provider copilots, patient engagement tools, and revenue cycle management automation.
