Abridge, Ambience Healthcare and Insight Health announced this week that several new artificial intelligence-driven tools are now available on electronic health records to improve provider operations and patient care in the emergency room and beyond. Two tech companies have also formed a strategic partnership that leverages advanced analytics to create enterprise offerings that streamline healthcare operations and regulatory reporting responsiblities.
Ambient ED suite now on Epic
According to a spokesperson for Abridge, an AI platform, emergency medicine clinicians currently face the highest rates of burnout of any specialty – at 63%, according to a survey report last year by WebMD’s MedScape.
With Abridge Inside for Emergency Medicine, developed with Epic System’s Workshop Program, clinicians can access ambient recording tools directly in their mobile Epic Haiku app.
Ambient recording via Haiku, an app that provides clinicians with access to patient summaries, clinic schedules, hospital patient lists and more from their mobile devices, is already in use at several health systems, including Emory Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Mayo Clinic and UChicago Medicine, according to the company.
“Abridge Inside has reduced burnout and increased job satisfaction in the emergency department without changing anything else,” Dr. Tricia Smith, an Emory University Hospital emergency physician, said in a statement. “I can’t think of a single person who uses Abridge who would go back.”
More AI scribes via athenahealth
Ambience Healthcare announced Thursday that it has also signed an agreement to offer documentation, coding and care coordination tools through the athenahealth marketplace.
Healthcare IT News recently spoke with Dr. William Morris, Ambience’s chief medical officer about the upsides and pitfalls of AI scribes in 2025 for HIMSSTV. Morris said that while AI scribes will progress to improve utility in various provider specialties, the way that health systems are convening their leaders around AI scribes is also improving their overall digital transformation.
Earlier this week, Insight Health also announced that its also become a marketplace partner and its Aura AI Scribe and virtual care assistant conducting pre-visit and post-visit patient interviews to capture medical history information across care journeys is now available.
Jaimal Soni, Insight’s CEO and co-founder, said the company’s AI assistants help doctors save more than two hours per day in documentation time and can see upwards of five additional patients each week as a result.
“Healthcare providers today spend over a third of their time on administrative tasks rather than patient care, leading to burnout and reduced access to care,” he said in a statement. With AI, they complete their notes before leaving their clinics.
“Through this integration with athenahealth’s Marketplace, we can extend these benefits to thousands more providers, helping them focus on what matters most – their patients – while maintaining the highest standards of clinical accuracy and data security.”
Native AI for improved reporting
Core Mobile, Inc., announced a strategic partnership with digital transformation and IT solutions InfoVision to combine its AI-native health technologies, including video monitoring, ambient AI, telehealth, patient engagement, real-time tracking, IoT and predictive analytics, with InfoVision’s consulting and analytical expertise.
In addition to care delivery optimization – by increasing hospital capacity, reducing provider burnout and improving patient outcomes – the partners aim to develop real-time data and machine learning tools that streamline regulatory reporting.
“With InfoVision’s proven track record in delivering digital transformation at scale, we are now better equipped to expand our impact and deploy and scale our [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] and [Federal Information Security Modernization Act] FISMA compliant solutions to our customers in healthcare and life sciences,” Chandra Tekwani, Core’s founder and CEO, said in a statement on Thursday.
Sean Yalamanchi, InfoVision’s co-founder and president, said that the companies are partnering to address the healthcare sector’s evolving needs. “We are poised to deliver innovative, scalable solutions that enhance efficiency, reduce burnout, and ultimately improve patient outcomes,” he said in a statement Thursday.
Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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