Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “ tremendous potential ” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News In a Microsoft press release announcing the availability of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service, Epic’s Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of Research and Development, said the EHR vendor sees “tremendous potential” for the latest version of the multimodal large language model. According to Hain, “We’ll use it to help physicians and nurses spend less time at the keyboard and to help them investigate data in more conversational, easy-to-use ways.” (Hat tip to Katie Link for point this out.) HHS recently proposed standards for electronic signatures for transactions that require attachments – and the HIMSS EHR Association has some concerns. In a letter to HHS, the group requested clarification on two points: Whether current processes using HL7 v2 standards would be adequate, and whether the digital signature would apply to the specific claim or prior authorization request (and wouldn’t impact upstream clinical processes). Studies Research firm Eliciting Insights found that more than 92% of patients would use self-scheduling tools if offere...
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