How to Use AI to Improve Patient Referrals

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Providence health system has developed an artificial intelligence tool to help physicians manage patient referrals more effectively and efficiently: MedPearl. 

Providence identified patient referral management as an AI opportunity and developed MedPearl as an AI product within the health system, says Eve Cunningham, MD, MBA, MedPearl founder and chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence. "MedPearl is a product that lives within Providence. It will probably become its own entity eventually. It has been built and incubated within Providence," she says.

Read the complete article at HealthLeaders.

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