- Clinical innovator UI Health Care turned to advanced ambient
AI technology to ease administrative burdens and increase provider
well-being by streamlining clinical documentation processes
- Nabla is the leading ambient AI assistant in the U.S.
market, designed to enhance the clinician experience by providing
time back to focus on practicing medicine
- UI Health Care clinicians reported a 26% decline in burnout
during a five-week pilot program
BOSTON, Sept. 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Nabla, the leading ambient
AI assistant for clinicians, today announced University of Iowa (UI) Health Care, Iowa's only comprehensive academic health
system, has rolled out Nabla's ambient AI assistant system-wide
following a successful pilot. By making advanced ambient AI
technology available for all its clinicians, UI Health Care deepens
its focus on leveraging advanced technology to improve patient
care, clinician well-being, and the future of care delivery.
Physician well-being is more important than ever as work-life
balance dissipates, largely due to time-intensive clinical
documentation and administrative tasks. Managing and
navigating EHR systems, which provide a digital version of a
patient's paper chart, creates extensive administrative work. It is
estimated that for every hour physicians spend directly clinical
face time with patients, nearly two additional hours are spent on
EHR and desk work within the clinic day. In a recent survey, when
physicians were asked how to alleviate their work-life balance, an
overwhelming 75% of respondents suggested reducing the
administrative burden.
To address this issue, UI Health Care selected Nabla's ambient
AI technology as part of its AI strategy aimed at improving patient
care, physician well-being, and efficiency. Nabla summarizes
patient encounters in real-time to generate comprehensive,
structured clinical notes. Nabla is a supplemental AI tool that
does not replace the judgment of UI Health Care's providers.
UI Health Care selected Nabla for a five-week pilot program
that achieved 100 percent adoption and a 75 percent week-over-week
engagement score among the clinicians who participated. Of the
2,300 visits that utilized Nabla, providers achieved a 4.3 out of 5
clinical note rating. UI Health Care also saw a 26% reduction in
reported burnout rate among participants.
"We conducted an extensive search for an ambient AI solution
that could move the needle with the clinical documentation process
and experience," said James Blum,
MD, Chief Health Information Officer and Associate Professor of
Anesthesiology, University of Iowa
Physicians. "As an academic medical center, it is critical for us
to continue advancing clinical innovation to provide current care
teams with better experiences and shape the medical field to be
more attractive for future generations. We found Nabla's
ambient AI technology helps us meet these goals and we look forward
to seeing the benefits of rolling out the platform
system-wide."
UI Health Care clinicians who are using Nabla ask patients
for verbal permission to use it during their visit. The
conversation is not recorded. The HIPAA-compliant software simply
listens using speech-to-text technology and only documents the
encounter for a brief period. From this documentation, the AI
generates a draft note which the clinician then reviews, edits, and
transfers to the patient's medical record.
For UI Health Care's system-wide launch, Nabla was integrated
into Epic, enabling clinicians to create the note in one click
without the need for manual copy and paste. Nabla's AI-powered
features like Magic Edit and customization capabilities are
helping streamline adoption and enhance existing workflows.
UI Health Care and Nabla will continue to collaborate to ensure
the product is adopted and used properly by physicians and advanced
practice providers (APPs) as well as the system's nurses and other
clinicians. The team will create special features as needed for
nurses and other workflows to accommodate their unique clinical
documentation processes.
"It's inspiring to see firsthand how committed UI Health Care is
to supporting and improving the well-being of its providers," said
Alex LeBrun, co-founder and CEO of
Nabla. "They care deeply about the clinical team experience, value
technology's role in driving improvements and innovation across the
care journey and share our mission to enhance the future of care
delivery."
About Nabla
Nabla is the leading ambient AI assistant,
reducing practitioner stress and improving patient care. Nabla
produces AI-generated clinical notes in seconds from any encounter
across all specialties. Powered by proprietary LLMs, fine-tuned to
the medical field, Nabla's capabilities include AI-enabled medical
coding identification and smooth EHR integrations.
The company's leadership includes Alex
Lebrun (CEO), with over two decades of experience building
AI products, and whose companies have been acquired by Nuance
(VirtuOz) and Facebook (Wit.ai); Delphine
Groll (COO) and Martin Raison
(CTO). Ed Lee, MD, MPH, who was
previously CIO at The Permanente Federation, recently joined Nabla
as Chief Medical Officer. He heads Nabla's Clinical Advisory Board,
formed by 20+ seasoned clinical leaders.
On the technological side, the company's advisors include
Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI
Scientist at Meta, and Tony Fadell,
inventor of the iPod and former Apple executive, among others.
Nabla has raised a total of $49M,
its most recent fundraising being a $30M series B led by global venture capital firm
Cathay Innovation. For more information, please visit:
www.nabla.com.
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