May 20, 2024- Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft company announced that Utah-based Intermountain Health is deploying Dragon® Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) Copilot generative AI solutions across the healthcare industry to increase clinical and operational efficiency by providing a tool to automate clinical documentation and administrative tasks.
Intermountain Health’s implementation of DAX Copilot is part of a comprehensive approach to address the urgent challenges facing all U.S. health systems, including clinician burnout, staff shortages and operational complexity. It’s also aimed at expanding access to care in communities across the seven U.S. states served by Intermountain Health. This is especially important given that the annual rate at which physicians are leaving practices is increasing dramatically year over year.
According to the American Medical Association (AMA), physicians spend nearly two hours on documentation and administrative duties for every hour of patient care. DAX Copilot uses conversational, ambient and generative AI to automatically create clinical documentation during patient exams in seconds, saving physicians time and allowing them to focus on their patients.