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Kaiser Permanente expands AI scribes across 40 hospitals, 8 states, Google drops Amazon's One Medical + more · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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