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

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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).

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Brian Eastwood

Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003.

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