Phoenix-based healthcare provider Banner Health is expanding its partnership with Los Angeles-based clinical decision software company Regard to provide clinical support decision-making to clinicians across Banner Health hospitals.
Regard leverages algorithms and artificial intelligence to generate clinical decisions, documentation, and facilitate communication between clinicians.
The partnership will gradually integrate Regard's software into the EHRs of Banner's 33 acute care hospitals, covering patients in six states.
“When we launched Regard, we recognized the need to unlock valuable clinical data stored in EHRs. Over the past few years, we have streamlined EHR navigation and improved patient safety. “We continue our relationship with Banner Health to improve clinical workflows and patient outcomes with measurable ROI.” We're excited to work together to make it better,” said Nate Wilson, Regard's chief operating officer and co-founder. Mobi Health News on mail.
The company originally partnered with Banner Health for a pilot program at Thunderbird Medical Center in Arizona in 2022.
“Providing the best care to our community starts with prioritizing our clinical workforce. If we provide innovative tools to make their jobs easier and more efficient, , they can spend valuable time in front of their patients. We want to streamline critical administrative and documentation responsibilities. Regard's AI innovations help clinicians tell their patients' stories. You can spend more time listening,” says Susan C. Lee, Ph.D.a Banner Health physician executive told MobiHealthNews in an email.
bigger trends
by At the National Center for Biotechnology Innovation, AI in the clinical setting can free up more time to focus on more patient-centered tasks and improve risk assessment performance.
The market for AI for clinical decision making is Expected to double in the next five years, the total AI health market is expected to exceed $22.45 billion between 2024 and 2030, an annual increase of 36.4%.
News of this partnership comes as Regard seeks to expand the use of its clinical decision-making solutions. Regard recently announced that its solution covers his 173 oncology diagnoses.
Earlier this year, Hamilton, Ohio-based Kettering Health partnered with a clinical decision-making company to integrate the Regard solution into its EHR.
In August 2023, the company OpenAI to release chatbot built on large-scale language model GPT-4.
Best wishes in 2022 It secured a $15.3 million Series A funding round, followed by $5 million in early 2021.
Additional players in the AI clinical support space include a San Francisco-based company. Augmedix and ConcertAI, a real-world data and AI company that recently acquired cancer research platform CancerLinQ.
