Ambience, an artificial intelligence platform for documentation, coding and clinical workflow, has been added to Epic’s Toolbox program for ambient voice recognition tools, which expands its footprint and makes it more accessible to clinicians.
The Toolbox program, which is part of Epic Showroom, highlights software categories with recommended practices for integration and the third-party apps that follow those recommendations. AI ambient scribe Suki and Commure also are included in the ambient voice recognition category.
Ambience’s inclusion in the Toolbox program will expand the availability of the company’s AI-powered documentation capabilities to a broader range of Epic customers and launch Ambience’s latest integration with Epic’s Ambient Module and Haiku, according to the company.
With the Toolbox designation, Ambience’s unique, frontier capabilities are available natively inside Haiku, EpicCare’s mobile app. Clinicians can launch from Haiku in outpatient, emergency department and inpatient settings
“Epic has been deepening its integration and partnership with the ambient technology players out in the market,” said Nikhil Buduma, co-founder and chief scientist at Ambience Healthcare. Ambience’s ongoing partnership with Epic enables its technology to be integrated deeply within clinicians’ workflows, he said.
“One of the things that we’ve been able to do with this partnership is take a lot of the features that Ambience customers really love about Ambience that includes things such as in the ED environment, the ability to stop and start recording and have immediate documentation right back into Epic, which previously wasn’t possible with the API specs that Epic had on the market. Now all that functionality is now natively available inside of Epic in Haiku and Hyperspace and Hyperdrive,” Buduma said.
“Clinicians now have those workflows available in the Haiku experience, which is a more ideal end-to-end workflow, so you never have to leave the Epic ecosystem,” he added.
