By Mukundan Sivaraj · AIM Media House
Sutter Health is embedding artificial intelligence directly inside its clinical systems following a series of pilots across imaging, documentation and screening over the past two years.
This month, the Sacramento-based not-for-profit health system announced it is integrating the evidence platform from OpenEvidence into its Epic Systems electronic health record workflows.
Physicians will be able to use natural language to search clinical guidelines, peer-reviewed studies and other evidence within the EHR at the point of care, according to the companies’ announcement .
Laura Wilt, Sutter Health’s chief digital officer, said in the announcement that digital innovation “plays a central role in our work to build a more connected, proactive and sustainable healthcare system.” Dr.
Ashley Beecy, Sutter’s chief AI officer, added that “Patients benefit when providers have the most current and relevant evidence incorporated into clinical decision-making.”. The move places AI-powered evidence retrieval directly into the system clinicians already use to document visits, order tests and review results.
It follows a series of AI deployments across the organization. Scaling AI Across Clinical Workflows Sutter’s AI strategy began with targeted use cases. In radiology, the system partnered with Aidoc to deploy the company’s enterprise AI platform, aiOS™, across imaging workflows.
Sutter and Aidoc described the collaboration as an enterprise deployment designed to deliver real-time alerts for acute findings such as pulmonary embolisms and intracranial hemorrhage inside radiologists’ existing workstations.
The health system also expanded AI-enhanced mammography screening across more than 60 imaging sites, including mobile units.
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