# Ambient Listening Technology * **Definition:** A type of healthcare technology that utilizes passive audio monitoring systems to capture and analyze patient interactions and environmental sounds in real-time, facilitating improved patient care, monitoring, and communication without the need for active user engagement. * **Taxonomy:** Healthcare Topics / Ambient Listening Technology ## News * Selected news on the topic of **Ambient Listening Technology**, for healthcare technology leaders * 833 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 | [**Ambient AI gains ground but affordability lags**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/ai/ambient-ai-gains-ground-but-affordability-lags/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 5/24/2025 | [**Healthcare Provider Population Health Management Platforms Market Size 2025 - LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/healthcare-provider-population-health-management-lnpkf/) | [[Linkedin]] | | 5/8/2025 | [**Health system CIOs' 9 best IT investments**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/health-system-cios-9-best-it-investments/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 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]] | | 3/5/2025 | [**Announcements at HIMSS25**](https://www.healthitanswers.net/announcements-at-himss25/) | [[Health IT Answers]] | | 3/5/2025 | [**Where are we with AI adoption in healthcare? - LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-we-ai-adoption-healthcare-charles-deshazer-m-d--idfyc) | [[Linkedin]] | | 3/5/2025 | [**HIMSS25: InterSystems launches new EHR with built-in AI features**](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/himss25-intersystems-launches-new-ehr-built-ai-features) | [[FierceHealthcare]] | | 2/27/2025 | [**Caregility Unveils Next-Gen Virtual Care Coordination and AI-Powered Innovation at HIMSS 2025**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/caregility-unveils-next-gen-virtual-162000526.html) | [[Yahoo Finance]] | | 2/24/2025 | [**Transforming Clinical Data for Point-of-Care Intelligence**](https://www.healthitanswers.net/transforming-clinical-data-for-point-of-care-intelligence/) | [[Health IT Answers]] | | 2/10/2025 | [**At HIMSS25, eClinicalWorks will focus on practical applications of AI - Healthcare IT News**](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/himss25-eclinicalworks-will-focus-practical-applications-ai) | [[Healthcare IT News]] | | 2/10/2025 | [**Healthcare enters AI agent era**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/ai/healthcare-enters-ai-agent-era/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 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]] | | 1/28/2025 | [**Technology and trends shaping healthcare in 2025 - Becker's Hospital Review**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/technology-and-trends-shaping-healthcare-in-2025.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 1/14/2025 | [**2025 Tech Trends: 4 Healthcare IT Focus Areas**](https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2025/01/2025-tech-trends-4-healthcare-it-focus-areas) | [[HealthTech Magazine]] | | 12/21/2024 | [**Weekly Roundup - December 21, 2024 - Healthcare IT Today**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2024/12/21/weekly-roundup-december-21-2024/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 12/19/2024 | [**The Great Healthcare Reset: How Technology is Redefining Healthcare as We Know It**](https://medtechintelligence.com/feature_article/the-great-healthcare-reset-how-technology-is-redefining-healthcare-as-we-know-it/) | [[MedTech Intelligence]] | | 12/18/2024 | [**Benefits and Challenges of Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2024/12/18/benefits-and-challenges-of-integrating-ai-and-machine-learning-into-ehr-systems/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 12/17/2024 | [**Meditech's plans for 2025**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/meditechs-plans-for-2025.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 12/13/2024 | [**A safety-net hospital CFO gets real about AI, cybersecurity spend**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/a-safety-net-hospital-cfo-gets-real-about-ai-cybersecurity-spend.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 11/25/2024 | [**15 health systems partnering with Amazon, Apple, Microsoft**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/digital-health/15-health-systems-partnering-with-amazon-apple-microsoft.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 11/3/2024 | [**How Intermountain is helping shape this Microsoft tool**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/digital-health/how-intermountain-is-helping-shape-this-microsoft-tool/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 9/5/2024 | [**Netsmart Announces Bells Virtual Scribe and Automation Advancements of the CareFabric® Platform**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240905256175/en/Netsmart-Announces-Bells-Virtual-Scribe-and-Automation-Advancements-of-the-CareFabric%C2%AE-Platform/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-RLXHJgazfQJNuOVHefdHP-D8R-QU5o2AvY8bhI9uvWSD8DYIYv4TIC1g1u0AKcacnnViVjtb72bOP4-4nHK5ieT3WxPE8m_kWI77F87CseT) | [[Business Wire]] | | 9/5/2024 | [**Netsmart Announces Bells Virtual Scribe and Automation Advancements of the CareFabric® Platform**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240905256175/en/Netsmart-Announces-Bells-Virtual-Scribe-and-Automation-Advancements-of-the-CareFabric%C2%AE-Platform/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-Q-tiwWZwkcswR1UZtV7eGe24xL9TZOyQUMS3J72mJlQ7fxFuNFTHSunhvli30RlBNXya2izy9YOgHlBiZQk2LOzmn6JePCpHPCiYGaEx4DL1Rq8pNwkf3AarimpDzQGuQ==) | [[Business Wire]] | | 8/22/2024 | [**Kaiser partners with Abridge on AI-enabled clinical documentation**](https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/kaiser-partners-abridge-ai-enabled-clinical-technology) | [[Healthcare Finance]] | | 8/13/2024 | [**Kaiser launches largest generative AI project in healthcare**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/innovation/kaiser-permanente-expands-ai-scribes-across-40-hospitals-8-states/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | ## Topic Overview (Some LLM-derived content — please confirm with above primary sources) ### Key Players - **athenahealth**: A healthcare technology company that has developed Ambient Notes, an AI-powered documentation solution utilizing ambient listening technology. - **Abridge**: An AI startup that provides ambient listening technology for clinical documentation, capturing patient-provider conversations. - **Chris Frost**: MD predicting the significance of AI and ambient listening technology in healthcare. - **NextGen Healthcare**: A healthcare technology company that offers AI-driven ambient listening solutions to improve documentation efficiency. - **eClinicalWorks**: A health IT vendor that offers AI-powered ambient listening solutions to enhance clinical documentation and reduce administrative burdens. - **Suki**: A leader in AI technology for healthcare, focusing on integrating ambient listening capabilities into EHR systems. - **Press Ganey**: A company focused on enhancing patient experience monitoring through AI and cloud computing capabilities, including ambient listening technology. - **Robert Fox**: CEO of OntarioMD, emphasizing the importance of understanding ambient clinical voice technology. - **ModMed**: A healthcare technology company known for its AI-powered ambient listening technology, ModMed Scribe, which aims to reduce documentation time and enhance clinical workflows. - **Artisight**: A company focused on transforming healthcare with AI-powered smart hospital platforms that utilize ambient intelligence to improve clinical workflows. - **Timothy Gray**: A leader discussing the implications of generative AI and ambient AI solutions in healthcare. - **Dan Cane**: CEO of ModMed, sharing insights on developing ambient AI for billing claims accuracy. - **Caregility**: A corporation unveiling innovative care coordination and ambient AI solutions aimed at enhancing virtual care and optimizing clinical workflows. - **Mass General Brigham**: A health system implementing generative AI for ambient documentation to assist clinicians in drafting clinical notes. - **Epic Systems**: A major EHR vendor collaborating with Microsoft to develop AI solutions that streamline nursing documentation using ambient technology. - **Commure**: A healthcare technology company that integrates ambient clinical documentation products with EHR platforms to reduce clinician burnout and enhance patient care. - **Nuance Communications**: A key player in AI tools for healthcare, partnering with health systems to implement AI-driven solutions. ### Partnerships and Collaborations - **Intermountain Health and Microsoft/Epic**: Collaborating to improve nursing workflows through ambient listening technology. - **ModMed and various health systems**: ModMed is enhancing provider engagement through its ambient listening technology, collaborating with health systems to implement its solutions. - **Suki and Azalea Health**: Collaboration to embed ambient listening capabilities into Azalea Health's EHR, enhancing clinician-patient interactions for underserved providers. - **Press Ganey and Microsoft**: Strategic partnership to utilize AI and cloud computing for enhancing patient experience monitoring, including ambient listening technology. - **athenahealth and Abridge**: Partnership to integrate generative AI capabilities into ambulatory care practices, enhancing the Ambient Notes solution for real-time documentation. - **Nabla and various healthcare systems**: Forming partnerships to enhance ambient AI capabilities. - **Epic Systems and Microsoft**: Collaborating to develop AI solutions that streamline nursing documentation using ambient technology. - **Commure and MEDITECH Alliance**: This partnership aims to integrate ambient clinical documentation products with the MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform to automate patient visit documentation. - **Medicomp Systems and Altera Digital Health**: Collaborating to transform dictated text into interactive clinical data, enhancing clinical workflows. - **Life Link III and Playback Health**: Strategic partnership to enhance clinical documentation in air medical transport. - **Abridge and Mayo Clinic**: Partnering to implement AI tools in ambulatory settings. - **Clinical Architecture and 4medica**: Collaborating to provide a harmonized longitudinal care record solution to improve data quality and interoperability. - **Suki and EHR vendors (MEDENT, Azalea Health)**: Integrating AI capabilities into EHR solutions to improve user experience and patient care. - **Suki and MEDENT**: Partnership to integrate Suki's AI features into MEDENT's EHR system, improving clinical note accuracy and alleviating administrative burdens. - **Juno Health and Avo**: Partnering to integrate AI scribe technology into EHR systems, reducing clinician documentation time. - **Suki with MEDENT and Azalea Health**: These partnerships focus on integrating AI capabilities into EHR systems to enhance user experience and patient care. - **American Cancer Society and Layer Health**: Collaborating to utilize large language models to enhance data abstraction processes for cancer research. - **Kaiser Permanente and Abridge**: This partnership aims to implement AI-based clinical documentation tools across Kaiser Permanente's healthcare network. ### Innovations, Trends, and Initiatives - **Ambient Listening Technology**: Utilized to capture doctor-patient conversations and convert them into structured information, streamlining clinical workflows. - **Integration of Ambient Listening Technology**: Healthcare organizations are adopting ambient listening systems to facilitate passive documentation of patient interactions while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. - **AI-Driven Ambient Listening Solutions**: Emerging technologies like NextGen Ambient Assist and Suki Assistant automate documentation processes, potentially saving physicians significant time. - **Avaamo Ambient**: Generative AI-powered ambient listening technology that converts natural conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time. - **NextGen Healthcare**: Expanding AI-driven ambient listening technology for larger enterprises. - **ModMed Scribe**: An AI-powered ambient listening technology designed to understand specialty-specific medical language and suggest actions for clinical workflows. - **NextGen Ambient Assist**: An AI-driven solution that transcribes and summarizes patient interactions in real-time, saving clinicians significant documentation time. - **Bells Virtual Scribe**: An AI tool by Netsmart that utilizes ambient listening for capturing patient conversations, streamlining documentation in telehealth. - **Nabla**: Recognized for its innovative ambient AI assistant, improving clinician efficiency. - **Reteta**: A clinical care application utilizing Ambient AI to streamline medical documentation. - **AI-Powered Documentation Solutions**: Innovations like Ambient Notes and Suki Assistant are designed to automate clinical documentation, reducing administrative burdens. - **AI-driven Documentation Tools**: Technologies like Nuance DAX Copilot and Abridge are being integrated into health systems to reduce clinician documentation time and improve job satisfaction. - **Multilingual Capabilities**: Tools like Sunoh.ai are designed to cater to diverse patient populations, improving communication and documentation in multiple languages. - **Abridge**: Enhancing clinical documentation efficiency with AI-powered tools. - **Smart Hospitals**: Facilities utilizing advanced technology to enhance patient care and operational efficiency, integrating data from EHR systems and employing real-time data-driven automations. - **AI Scribes**: Rapid adoption among healthcare providers to alleviate physician burnout and improve patient engagement. - **Generative AI**: Emerging as a transformative force in healthcare, streamlining operations and enhancing patient engagement through advanced AI-driven tools. ### Challenges and Concerns - **Privacy and Security**: Concerns regarding patient data privacy and security in the use of AI-driven ambient listening solutions. - **Integration with EHRs**: Ambient listening technology faces challenges in integrating semi-structured data into EHR systems designed for structured data entry. - **Cost of Implementation**: The high costs associated with AI-powered ambient listening technologies pose challenges for many healthcare organizations, particularly smaller ones. - **Clinician Burnout**: Despite the potential of ambient listening technologies to alleviate clinician burnout, there are concerns about the effectiveness of natural language processing in converting conversations into actionable clinical data. - **Data Management**: Healthcare organizations face challenges in managing unstructured data while leveraging AI and ambient listening technologies to enhance clinical documentation. - **Regulatory Compliance**: Ensuring that AI tools meet stringent safety and effectiveness standards as outlined by regulatory bodies like ASTP. - **Human Oversight**: Warnings against AI systems making clinical decisions without human oversight. - **Malpractice Risks**: 40% of physicians are concerned about malpractice risks associated with AI technologies. - **Integration with Clinical Workflows**: The need for AI tools to be integrated effectively to avoid pitfalls experienced with EHRs. - **Data Privacy and Security**: The integration of AI raises concerns about patient data protection and potential vulnerabilities. - **AI Accuracy and Patient Care**: Concerns persist among nurses regarding AI's accuracy and its impact on patient care. - **Equity in AI Adoption**: Concerns about disparities in healthcare providers' readiness to adopt AI tools, potentially leading to inequities in healthcare delivery. - **Clinician Resistance**: There may be hesitance among healthcare providers to adopt new technologies due to concerns about reliability and workflow disruption. - **Regulatory and Ethical Considerations**: The implementation of AI in healthcare must navigate complex regulatory frameworks and ethical implications. - **Integration Complexity**: Integrating AI with existing EHR systems is costly and complex, which hampers the implementation of AI use cases in healthcare settings. - **Data Quality**: The effectiveness of AI applications in healthcare is heavily dependent on the quality of data used, as poor data can lead to detrimental outcomes. - **Physician Burnout**: Over 60% of U.S. physicians report experiencing burnout, largely due to excessive time spent on documentation and administrative tasks. ## Related Topics [[Ambient AI]]