# Ambient Clinical Voice * **Definition:** A technology that captures clinical conversations and interactions in a healthcare setting to assist in documentation. * **Taxonomy:** Healthcare Topics / Ambient Clinical Voice ## News * Selected news on the topic of **Ambient Clinical Voice**, for healthcare technology leaders * 1K news items are in the system for this topic * Posts have been filtered for tech and healthcare-related keywords | Date | Title | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | 5/27/2025 | [**Rural Healthcare Challenges: How AI & Telemedicine Can Improve Access - HIT Consultant**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/05/27/rural-healthcare-challenges-how-ai-telemedicine-can-improve-access/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 5/26/2025 | [**Privacy & Security - Healthcare IT News**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/taxonomy/term/6156/news/deep-dive-exploring-one-most-advanced-telemedicine-programs-us?page=29) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 5/26/2025 | [**Hekma's Vision for Smarter Healthcare: Empowering Lives Through Technology - Medium**](https://medium.com/@hekmaaiofficial/hekmas-vision-for-smarter-healthcare-empowering-lives-through-technology-33c3a4aad5b1) | [[Medium]] | | 5/24/2025 | [**News - Healthcare IT News**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/kck.st/84563?page=144) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 5/24/2025 | [**769 - Healthcare IT News**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news%20/84546?page=768) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 5/17/2025 | [**Weekly Roundup - May 17, 2025 - Healthcare IT Today**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2025/05/17/weekly-roundup-may-17-2025/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 5/16/2025 | [**Health & Wellness Devices Market Forecast to Surpass Revenues of $900 Billion by 2030**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/health-wellness-devices-market-forecast-132000785.html) | [[Yahoo Finance]] | | 5/8/2025 | [**MedTech Breakthrough Announces 2025 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/05/08/2025-medtech-breakthrough-award-winners-announced/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 5/7/2025 | [**Virtual Healthcare May 2025**](https://www.healthitanswers.net/virtual-healthcare-may-2025/) | [[Health IT Answers]] | | 4/24/2025 | [**Nabla Expands Partnership with FQHC Neighborhood Healthcare, Rolling Out Ambient AI Assistant to All Clinicians**](https://hitconsultant.net/2025/04/24/nabla-expands-partnership-with-fqhc-neighborhood-healthcare/) | [[HIT Consultant]] | | 4/18/2025 | [**Emerging Technologies that are Driving Significant Innovations in Digital Health and ...**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2025/04/18/emerging-technologies-that-are-driving-significant-innovations-in-digital-health-and-reshaping-patient-care-delivery/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 4/7/2025 | [**ScribeEMR: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Innovative Solutions**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/innovation/scribeemr-revolutionizing-healthcare-through-innovative-solutions/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 3/4/2025 | [**What's coming to Epic**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/whats-coming-to-epic.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 2/12/2025 | [**AI Health Assistant Development: Revolutionizing Patient Care and Healthcare Efficiency**](https://medium.com/@apoorv-gehlot/ai-health-assistant-development-revolutionizing-patient-care-and-healthcare-efficiency-59cce677021a) | [[Medium]] | | 2/7/2025 | [**Healthcare IT Market to Grow by USD 215.4 Billion from 2025-2029, Driven by Service Quality and Efficiency Focus, with AI Impact on Market Trends - Technavio**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/healthcare-it-market-to-grow-by-usd-215-4-billion-from-2025-2029--driven-by-service-quality-and-efficiency-focus-with-ai-impact-on-market-trends---technavio-302371183.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 2/5/2025 | [**Digital Healthcare Solutions: Transforming the Future of Medicine - by Jacob Weber**](https://medium.com/@jacobweber005/digital-healthcare-solutions-transforming-the-future-of-medicine-601c30e7a577) | [[Medium]] | | 1/31/2025 | [**Smart Healthcare Market to Grow by USD 125.7 Billion (2024-2028), Rising Demand for Remote Health Monitoring Boosts Market, with AI Redefining Trends - Technavio**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/smart-healthcare-market-to-grow-by-usd-125-7-billion-2024-2028-rising-demand-for-remote-health-monitoring-boosts-market-with-ai-redefining-trends---technavio-302365329.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 1/31/2025 | [**Smart Healthcare Market to Grow by USD 125.7 Billion (2024-2028), Rising Demand for ...**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/smart-healthcare-market-grow-usd-224300031.html) | [[Yahoo Finance]] | | 1/29/2025 | [**Healthcare AI Agents: New Opportunities for the High-Tech Industry - Alex G. Lee, Ph.D. Esq. CLP**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/healthcare-ai-agents-new-opportunities-high-tech-lee-ph-d-esq-clp-hkl2e) | [[Linkedin]] | | 1/24/2025 | [**Healthcare Software Development in 2025: The Ultimate Comprehensive Guide - Medium**](https://medium.com/@raawat.it/healthcare-software-development-in-2025-the-ultimate-comprehensive-guide-81a8637e010b) | [[Medium]] | | 1/24/2025 | [**Healthcare Services Market to Grow by USD 6.26 Trillion (2024-2028), Driven by Rising Chronic Disease Prevalence, Report Highlights AI-Powered Market Evolution - Technavio**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/healthcare-services-market-to-grow-by-usd-6-26-trillion-2024-2028-driven-by-rising-chronic-disease-prevalence-report-highlights-ai-powered-market-evolution---technavio-302358330.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 1/19/2025 | [**Pawan Kohli on LinkedIn: #digital #health #startups #healthcare #startups #technological…**](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pawankohli13_digital-health-startups-activity-7286790970120044545-86AE) | [[Linkedin]] | | 12/3/2024 | [**Health IT Hires, Appointments, and Who's Hiring**](https://www.healthitanswers.net/health-it-hires-appointments-and-whos-hiring-120324/) | [[Health IT Answers]] | | 11/2/2020 | [**Telehealth expansion and health disparities: 3 leaders weigh in**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/telehealth/telehealth-expansion-and-health-disparities-3-leaders-weigh-in/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 10/7/2018 | [**Health plans increasingly cover telemedicine services, despite low adoption**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/telehealth/health-plans-increasingly-cover-telemedicine-services-despite-low-adoption/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | ## Topic Overview (Some LLM-derived content — please confirm with above primary sources) ### Key Players - **SeamlessMD**: A healthcare technology provider advocating for device-less remote patient monitoring and highlighting mixed adoption rates of ambient clinical voice technology. - **Nabla**: A provider of ambient voice solutions that integrates seamlessly with EHR systems, focusing on enhancing clinician workflows and patient care. - **Epic**: A leading health IT company enhancing clinician workflows through ambient voice recognition and multimodal capabilities. - **Vitalchat**: An innovator in AI-powered ambient solutions for inpatient virtual nursing and telehealth. - **Commure**: A company specializing in ambient clinical documentation products that utilize AI-powered ambient listening technology to automate patient visit documentation. - **DeepCura AI**: A company focused on AI medical scribes and ambient clinical voice solutions, emphasizing deep integration with EHR systems. - **Community Health Network (CHN)**: Actively participates in AI in Clinical Care initiatives and utilizes ambient listening technologies to reduce clinician administrative burdens. - **Allegheny Health Network**: A healthcare provider implementing ambient listening AI platforms to assist physicians with clinical documentation and improve workflow efficiency. - **NextGen Healthcare**: Introduced the AI-driven ambient listening solution, NextGen Ambient Assist, which transcribes and summarizes patient interactions in real-time. - **Abridge**: A technology that captures clinical notes via ambient listening, implemented across multiple healthcare facilities to improve documentation efficiency. - **Sunoh.ai**: An AI medical scribe solution that utilizes ambient listening technology to enhance clinical documentation. - **Hicuity Health**: A provider of virtual patient monitoring services, collaborating with BioIntelliSense to improve patient outcomes through continuous monitoring. - **Greenway Health**: A healthcare technology company focusing on EHR solutions, emphasizing AI-driven innovations and ambient voice solutions for internal operations. - **Canvas Medical**: A healthcare technology company that developed Hyperscribe, an open-source AI-enabled clinical copilot designed to enhance documentation in electronic medical records. - **VSee Health**: Offers AI-powered telehealth solutions and has partnered with LanguageLine Solutions to enhance interpreter access in telehealth services. - **Fabric**: A leader in enterprise conversational AI, recognized for its Hybrid AI technology designed for healthcare settings. ### Partnerships and Collaborations - **Kaiser Permanente and Abridge**: Partnering to enhance clinical documentation through ambient listening technology, improving patient interactions. - **Commure and MEDITECH Alliance**: Integrating ambient clinical documentation products with the MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform to reduce clinician burnout and enhance patient care. - **Nabla and Neighborhood Healthcare**: Expanded partnership to implement ambient AI across 220 clinicians, improving patient care and reducing administrative burdens. - **VSee Health and Ava Robotics**: Collaboration to develop telepresence solutions for inpatient intensive care. - **VirtuAlly and Teledigm Health**: Partnered to provide virtual nursing services to rural healthcare systems, addressing staffing shortages. - **Amendola Communications and Life365 Health**: Implementing a national PR and marketing program to increase awareness of AI-driven virtual care solutions. - **Clinical Architecture and 4medica**: Partnered to provide a harmonized longitudinal whole-person care record solution to enhance data quality and interoperability. - **MIT Health and Notable**: Showcased a case study on how AI and process automation can alleviate clinician burdens. - **VSee Health and LanguageLine Solutions**: Providing instant interpreter access in over 240 languages to improve communication in telehealth services. - **Freed**: Plans to expand its AI clinician assistant capabilities to combat clinician burnout. - **Johns Hopkins Medicine and Caregility**: Collaborating to implement the Caregility Cloud™ virtual care platform across hospitals to enhance patient care. - **OpenEvidence**: Collaborating with The New England Journal of Medicine to provide valuable resources for clinicians. - **Christian Healthcare Ministries and HealthTap**: Partnering to provide members with access to virtual primary and urgent care services. - **UniDoc Health and AMD Telemedicine**: UniDoc announced a purchase agreement to acquire AGNES Connect software, enhancing its NEIL Connect platform for clinical examinations and video conferencing. - **Epic and Microsoft**: Collaborating to integrate large language model tools and AI into EHR software, enhancing functionalities like charting and coding. - **BioIntelliSense and Hicuity Health**: Formed a strategic partnership to provide scalable continuous patient monitoring solutions, integrating wearable technology with monitoring services. - **DeepCura AI and EHR Systems**: DeepCura AI has established deep integration with EHR systems to enhance clinical documentation. - **Telemynd and CharmHealth**: Collaboration to create APIs for integration between EHR and CRM systems for mental health care. - **Ascertain and Northwell Health**: Strategic partnership to enhance AI-driven solutions for patient care. - **Centivo and Premise Health**: Set to launch a new primary care-focused health plan for employers, emphasizing the integration of nursing expertise into technology design. ### Innovations, Trends, and Initiatives - **Ambient Clinical Voice Technology**: Integration of ambient clinical voice technology with clinical automation to enhance healthcare documentation. - **Ambient Clinical Voice**: Epic is enhancing clinician documentation through ambient voice recognition, aiming to automate administrative tasks. - **Ambient Clinical Documentation**: Utilizes AI-powered ambient listening technology to convert clinician-patient conversations into clinical notes in real time, significantly reducing administrative workload. - **AI Medical Scribes**: Utilizing ambient listening technology to convert conversations into clinical documentation, enhancing efficiency and accuracy. - **Voice Recognition Technology**: Increasing adoption of voice recognition technology in healthcare for improved efficiency and patient interaction. - **AI-Driven Innovations**: Greenway Health announced that all future innovations will be based on AI, focusing on ambient voice solutions for meetings and client support. - **Hyperscribe by Canvas Medical**: An AI-enabled clinical copilot that enhances documentation processes in electronic medical records by providing real-time updates during patient appointments. - **Inpatient Virtual Care Solutions**: Vitalchat's cloud-native platform aims to bridge the gap in telehealth adoption, enhancing patient safety and care quality. - **NextGen's Ambient Assist**: Expanded functionality includes AI-enabled recommendations for diagnosis codes and order management, streamlining EHR processes. - **Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)**: Centivo Care achieved PCMH accreditation, highlighting its commitment to quality virtual healthcare. - **AI-assisted Virtual Sitters**: Innovative telehealth solutions that enable remote monitoring of patients, increasing healthcare capacity and reducing costs. - **AI in Healthcare**: Growing interest in AI applications to enhance patient outcomes and streamline operations, with a focus on conversational intelligence. - **Telehealth Expansion**: hellocare.ai's platform enables hospitals to implement AI-assisted services, enhancing patient engagement and clinical efficiency. - **AI in Clinical Documentation**: The integration of AI technologies in clinical workflows is streamlining documentation processes and improving accuracy. - **Remote Monitoring Technologies**: Increased adoption of remote monitoring technologies in hospitals to manage patients from home, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. ### Challenges and Concerns - **Adoption Rates**: Mixed adoption rates of ambient clinical voice technology among physicians indicate a need for improved education and demonstration of benefits. - **Skepticism Among Clinicians**: Despite the benefits of AI, many clinicians express concerns about reliability and bias in ambient clinical voice technology. - **Cybersecurity Risks**: As healthcare technology evolves, cybersecurity remains a critical concern, particularly with the integration of AI and ambient voice solutions. - **Clinician Burnout**: High administrative workloads and documentation requirements contribute to clinician burnout, which ambient clinical documentation aims to alleviate. - **Implementation of AI**: The integration of AI in clinical settings requires rigorous evaluation and research to ensure effective rollout and real-world application. - **Provider Burnout**: Despite technological advancements, provider burnout remains a significant concern in healthcare, which tools like Sunoh.ai aim to alleviate. - **AI in Healthcare**: Concerns from healthcare professionals regarding the integration of AI and its impact on staffing and patient care. - **AI Accuracy**: Challenges in ensuring AI accuracy in critical healthcare decisions and the importance of human oversight. - **Data Privacy and Security**: As telehealth services expand, ensuring data privacy and security remains a critical concern for healthcare providers. - **Integration with Existing Systems**: Challenges in seamlessly integrating new AI technologies with current electronic health record systems. - **Security and Privacy**: Telehealth necessitates a strong focus on the security and privacy of patient information to comply with HIPAA regulations, requiring careful selection of HIPAA-compliant platforms. - **Healthcare Consolidation**: Need for stronger enforcement to protect patients from negative effects of healthcare consolidation. - **Regulatory and Ethical Constraints**: Challenges in the healthcare ecosystem, including regulatory hurdles and ethical concerns, hinder the adoption of AI and telehealth. - **Data Overload**: The integration of patient-generated health data (PGHD) into EHR systems poses challenges in managing and making the data clinically relevant. - **Integration with EHRs**: Challenges in achieving seamless integration of new technologies with existing EHR systems. - **Staffing Shortages**: Healthcare systems face significant challenges due to staffing shortages, which AI-powered solutions aim to alleviate.