AI @ HCA Healthcare

HCA's AI strategy centers on dominating healthcare AI through actionable data, innovation, and strategic partnerships (notably with Google), focusing on clinical safety via tools like AI-assisted fetal heart rate monitoring and Viz.ai for stroke detection. Nurse handoff processes are streamlined through generative AI applications, evidencing mature internal use centered on patient safety and workflow efficiency.

• klover.ai: HCA's AI Strategy: Analysis of Dominance in Healthcare AI
• scholarlycommons.hcahealthcare.com: Implementation of Viz.ai Augmented Intelligence Software
• beckershospitalreview.com: How HCA and Google built a nurse-approved AI tool
• aha.org: HCA's AI-Driven Patient Safety Evolution, Part 1
• cloud.google.com: How nurses are charting the future of AI at America's largest health system

HCA focused on expanding AI to improve administrative functioning, operational management, and clinical outcomes. Collaborations with vendors like Commure developed EHR-agnostic ambient AI platforms. Research indicated AI-enabled wearable cameras could identify potential medication errors. Executives Sam Hazen and others shared perspectives on AI’s transformative healthcare impact.

• hcahealthcaretoday.com: 3 Takeaways Podcast: Sam Hazen on Technology, AI and Healthcare Innovation
• beckershospitalreview.com: How HCA plans to use AI in next 5-7 years
• medpagetoday.com: HCA Nurses Score Win Against AI; Docs Use ChatGPT in Clinical
• hcinnovationgroup.com: HCA Co-Developing Multi-Specialty, EHR-Agnostic Ambient AI Platform

HCA formalized ethical guidelines for the responsible use of generative AI assistive technologies and emphasized ongoing AI adoption to improve clinical and operational processes.

• hcahealthcare.com: Responsible Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Operations
• ramaonhealthcare.com: The 'immediate value' of AI at HCA

HCA expanded its AI use, focusing on digital transformation with intelligent applications; plans announced to broaden AI tool use for automating clinical documentation in emergency rooms across their 184-hospital network. New technology commitments included advanced documentation platforms and cloud storage integrated with generative AI.

• ihf-fih.org: Leading digital transformation in healthcare
• magazine.hcahealthcare.com: Technology: the Brave New World of Healthcare
• statnews.com: HCA to expand the use of AI tool to automate clinical documentation in ER

HCA continued piloting Google's generative AI technology to aid nurse handoff documentation processes at two southern hospitals. Dr. Michael Schlosser publicly outlined his AI vision focusing on enabling clinicians through AI enhancements.

• healthcare-brew.com: HCA Healthcare pilots Google AI to aid handoff documentation
• youtube.com: HCA Healthcare's Vision for AI

HCA Healthcare initiated AI pilots involving generative AI for extracting information from physician-patient conversations to create medical notes and equipped 75 ER physicians across four hospitals with Google's AI technology. The company began deploying generative AI across its large hospital network.

• blog.google: How 3 healthcare organizations are using generative AI
• fiercehealthcare.com: Google Cloud, HCA team up to deploy AI in the emergency room
• forbes.com: HCA, One Of The Largest Healthcare Organizations In The World Is Deploying Generative AI
• investor.hcahealthcare.com: HCA Healthcare Collaborates With Google Cloud to Bring Generative AI to Hospitals