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Whole-person healthcare technology company WellSky is partnering with Suki, maker of an AI-enabled healthcare voice tool, to launch AI ambient listening within its specialty care electronic health records (EHR) tool.
Suki offers an AI-enabled ambient AI tool that generates notes, allows dictation, recommends codes and answers clinicians' questions. The offering can be used with EMRs to copy clinical notes into the EHR.
WellSky provides software, analytics and services to providers, payers, health systems and community organizations.
Through the partnership, Suki will power WellSky’s AI-enabled ambient listening offering to help with clinical documentation creation within the company’s EHR for specialty care settings, including behavioral health, long-term acute care and rehabilitation facilities.
"At Suki, our focus has always been about freeing clinicians from tedious administrative work so they can focus on what’s most important: their patients," Punit Soni, CEO and cofounder of Suki, said in a statement.
"Our ambient intelligence layer serves as the AI infrastructure that partners can leverage to bring advanced capabilities to their users, driving greater efficiency, interoperability, and innovation. WellSky is a technology leader in healthcare, and we are thrilled to partner with them to jointly advance the future of industry through innovation that benefits both clinicians and patients."
THE LARGER TREND
Last week, Suki announced, exclusively through MobiHealthNews, the expansion of its ambient listening platform to automate the generation of CPT and E/M codes in addition to the ICD-10 and HCC codes the platform already recommended.
Earlier this month, Suki convened a consortium of nurse leaders from health systems and rural providers to develop an AI-powered assistant platform designed for nurses.
The platform, dubbed Suki for Nurses, is meant to integrate with EHR systems to help manage daily tasks such as patient assessments and admission forms, the company said.
In July, the company hired its first chief medical officer, Dr. Kevin Wong, who formerly held the position of chief medical officer at healthcare navigation platform Apree Health.
Suki extended its partnership with healthcare software and services provider athenahealth in May to allow all health systems on athenahealth's network access to the AI listening tool via athenahealth's Ambient Notes tool.
In September, WellSky announced it expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to integrate Gemini multimodal AI models for post-acute, acute and community care into WellSky's nationwide network of more than 20,000 sites of care.
