Health system leaders and Epic are joining Abridge's clinical research collaborative aimed at exploring the effects of ambient AI in five areas: clinician experience, patient experience, healthcare costs, health outcomes and health equity.
This research initiative seeks to assemble experts from academia, professional well-being, informatics, health operations, and policy to provide evidence-based recommendations for integrating ambient AI into clinical settings as its use becomes more widespread, according to an Oct. 1 news release.
The co-chairs of the committee are Tina Shah, MD, chief clinical officer of Abridge and Lee Schwamm, MD, chief digital health officer of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System. They will lead a group of experts and industry leaders, including:
- Vineet Arora, MD, dean for medical education, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- Jackie Gerhart, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Epic
- Mary Greene, MD, former director of CMS Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics
- Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, associate dean at University of California San Francisco and chief of staff at San Francisco-based VA Health Care System
- Tait Shanafelt, MD, chief wellness officer of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine and associate dean at Stanford School of Medicine