Mckesson and augmedix expand collaboration to enhance the doctor-patient relationship

Mckesson corporation announced an expansion to its collaboration with augmedix. augmedix turns natural doctor-patient conversation into medical charts in real time, so that doctors can focus on what matters most - patient care. augmedix provides doctors with hardware (smartphones or google glass), to securely livestream the clinic visit to its cloud-based platform. a combination of proprietary natural language processing (nlp) technology and human expert teams process the livestream to ensure the creation of quality and consistent documentation. the utilization of augmedix further enhances the experience of using ehrs including iknowmedsm [3], mckesson’s leading oncology practice ehr system that was named the top-ranked ehr platform for oncologists and hematologists for the eighth year in a row by black book™ research. this helps support several value-based care delivery initiatives like merit-based incentive payment system (mips), oncology care model (ocm) and real-world evidence generation. the ongoing objectives of the augmedix deployments are to renew the joy of practicing medicine by: enhancing doctor-patient interaction " eliminating the need for the doctor to spend hours every day typing into a keyboard or performing burdensome dictations, and enabling a natural interaction between the doctor and patient. improving ehr quality " delivering more comprehensive and accurate documentation allows for rigorous quality assurance. saving doctors time " reducing charting time and/or daily dictation time reduces burnout and enables increased productivity. as a result, doctors who use augmedix in the network have often viewed these services as “life changing” and reported 1.5-2 hours of time saved per day and a 60% increase in overall satisfaction with their practice.
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