This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast.
Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
August 14th.
First,
Kaiser Permanente has made a generative AI powered
clinical documentation
tool available to its providers across its 40
hospitals and over 600 medical offices.
The Oakland, California based health system said August
14th,
it contracted with AI startup, Abridge, to offer
ambient scribes to its clinical sites
across 8 states and the District of Columbia,
the largest rollout of generative AI in health
care so far.
Upon getting consent from patients, the platform transcribes
health care visits and drafts clinician notes for
the EHR.
Health systems are increasingly turning to similar AI
powered tools for clinical notes to get providers
away from the computer and give them more
face time with patients.
A bridge, valued at about
850,000,000,
is one of the bigger players in the
space with contracts with UPMC,
Sutter Health, and Crisis Health.
The company is also developing a clinical documentation
platform for nurses at Mayo Clinic and EPIC.
Kaiser Permanente said it expanded the use of
a bridge after testing it at Washington Permanente
Medical Group where it was well received by
patients and clinicians.
2nd,
Amazon's primary care subsidiary, One Medical, is set
to lose its contract with with Google by
the end of 2024, the reported.
Approximately 10% of One Medical's 2020 revenue came
from discounted medical services provided to Google's workforce
of around 180,000
employees under a contract between the two companies.
Media reports indicate that the percentage slightly declined
in 2021.
However, with 1 Medical ceasing to publicly disclose
financials following its acquisition by Amazon in 2022,
it remains unclear how this will affect the
company's future revenue.
Google has clarified that its decision to terminate
1 Medical's contract was unrelated to Amazon's acquisition
of the primary care provider.
The One Medical clinics previously operating on Google's
campuses
have now been transitioned to Premise Health, a
provider of both digital and in person health
care and wellness services for employers.
A Google spokesperson told Becker's that employees can
continue to use One Medical Community Centers as
an in network provider.
An Amazon spokesperson told Becker's, quote, One Medical
is proud of the care we have provided
to Google employees at a small number of
location on Google campuses, virtually and in our
hundreds of community
offices near where many Google employees live, work,
and shop.
Google employees can continue their care virtually and
at one medical offices in their communities across
the US, end quote.
3rd,
Walmart has leased another one of its former
health care centers.
Access Medical Clinic, which has 61 primary and
urgent care locations across 6 states, plans to
take over the x Walmart health facility
in Palestine, Texas in late 2024.
Walmart said in April that it was shuttering
all of 51 of its clinics along with
its telehealth business.
Access Medical CEO Brad Bibb said in an
August 9th statement, quote, our goal is to
provide accessible and affordable health care to those
who need it who need it most, and
this new clinic is a significant step towards
achieving that mission, end quote.
Walmart has also leads leased its former health
care spaces to Mercy for primary care and
Humana for senior focused medical
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