Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is planning to expand its DAX Copilot to inpatient clinicians as early as this fall.
Here are five things to know:
- The health system is working with Microsoft to expand the technology — which streamlines documentation of patient encounters in ambulatory clinics and emergency departments — to inpatient nursing staff.
- The expansion follows a pilot of the technology with 100 clinicians at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
- Currently, about 1,300 active users — including physicians, advanced practice providers, dietitians, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other frontline providers in clinics and the ED — use DAX.
- Surveys conducted with users after DAX Copilot adoption showed a significant increase in the proportion of faculty physicians who felt they had sufficient time for documentation and reported that the EHR “does not add to my frustration,” according to an Aug. 26 news release.
- “The pilot data were so positive, … we chose the ‘big-bang’ approach — we went live with everybody all at once,” Cecelia Theobald, MD, chief of staff for corporate clinical affairs and senior vice president for clinical affairs at VUMC said in the release. “We’re definitely on the leading edge of adopting this at big scale.”
