Wellsheet, a leader in AI clinical workflows and operations, has officially announced the launch of a new Care Team Copilot, which arrives on the scene bearing an ability to combine chart summarization, multidisciplinary rounding and discharge, as well as AI-generated documentation into a cohesive user experience.
Taking a departure from the typical AI scribes that document patient conversations, Wellsheet’s AI is capable of reading the full patient chart. Such a mechanism really goes the distance to conceive a natural workflow for inpatient settings that include multidisciplinary care teams of physicians various specialties, including nursing and case management.
More on the same would reveal how Wellsheet’s intuitive interface is actually integrated into all major EHRs. It further complements native EHR functionality and integrates easily into existing workflows.
Markedly enough, the new Copilot solution also leverages a differentiated EHR-agnostic tech stack to let health system IT teams more quickly deploy enterprise-wide, as well as improve efficiencies and outcomes at scale.
“Wellsheet’s Care Team Copilot is like having another member of your care team continuously reviewing the entire patient chart, recommending care pathways, and drafting your documentation for you,” said Craig Limoli, CEO and Co-Founder of Wellsheet. “We’re thrilled to deliver the first care team copilot that facilitates multidisciplinary care at enterprise scale, ensuring that every clinician can reap the benefits of the latest advancements in AI-enabled clinical workflows.”
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the promise of chart summarization & embedded decision support. This translates to how the solution’s contextual clinical views can seamlessly adapt to the user’s specialty, role, and usage patterns to reach upon relevant chart data and AI-generated narrative summaries for hospital course, assessment and plan, and other documentation needs.
Alongside that, having AI-driven chart summarization and an UpToDate integration should also come in handy to guide treatment decisions and surface relevant content prefilled with patient data from the chart. The stated piece of content could be related to clinical pathways, calculators, lab Interpretations, and other UpToDate content.
Next up, we must expand upon an AI-assisted facility for planning the discharge proceedings, a facility which provides one MDR dashboard with Geometric Mean Length of Stay (GMLOS) and Average Length of Stay (ALOS), Not just that, the stated technology will also distribute AI-driven alerts for patients due for discharge, anticipated discharge, discharge disposition, all available across handoff and chart views in Wellsheet.
Another detail worth a mention relates to Wellsheet Care Team Copilot’s focus on delivering AI-generated inpatient documentation. Basically, the AI deployed here can, like we briefly touched upon, read the entire patient chart to generate the required documentation.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account one study conducted by AMA where it was revealed that physicians spend 57.8% of their time in the EHR. Reinforcing this reality are several other studies that claim care teams can spend an average of 419 minutes from order to exit in the charting and discharge process, nearly 3.5x health systems’ target process time.
In case things weren’t bad enough, going by recent Mercer projections, the US healthcare industry will likely experience a deficit of over 100,000 workers by 2028, causing further operational challenges.
Against that, Wellsheet is helping clinicians reduce their charting time by 50%, whereas hospitalists are saving 90 minutes on inpatient stay documentation through the company’s proprietary technology, On top of it, health systems have also seen an average 12-16% reduction in length of stay.
These results have empowered the company to clock more than 50,000 clinician users across hundreds of care settings including leading health systems like Ascension, IU Health, Concord Hospital Health System, and more.
“What sets Wellsheet’s Copilot apart is its ability to hone in on the information I need, tailored to my role. As a physician, it summarizes the patient chart for me, cutting my chart review time in half, and as a Medical Director, it provides me with full census visibility to discharge barriers and other critical intelligence for managing throughput,” said Dr. Viral Acharya, Medical Director and hospitalist, Ascension St. Vincent’s. “The AI-generated summaries are a game changer.”
