Augmedix partners with HCA Healthcare for AI-enabled documentation

Augmedix (AUGX) announced a partnership with HCA Healthcare (HCA) to accelerate development of technology that aims to transform the way patient care is documented in the acute care setting. Augmedix will collaborate with HCA Healthcare to advance the development of AI-powered ambient documentation products for acute care clinicians, helping to streamline hospital workflows. These products instantly convert natural clinician-patient conversations into medical notes that physicians and nurses can review and finalize before they are transferred in real time to the Electronic Health Record. HCA Healthcare currently is pilot testing Augmedix’s technology stack, which includes automatic speech recognition technology and natural processing algorithms, in the emergency department in two hospitals, and plans to expand the pilot in emergency departments in two additional hospitals in the first half of the year. In conjunction with this partnership, HCA Healthcare will make a financial investment in Augmedix; this investment will accelerate progress in Augmedix’s AI-centric R&D efforts to generate fully automated ambient documentation products that function within the complex acute care setting.