Artificial intelligence scribe Suki announced Tuesday the launch of a new AI dictation solution aimed at improving documentation flexibility at healthcare organizations.
The tool—dubbed Suki Dictation—is natively built inside Epic and Meditech electronic health records (EHRs) and can be deployed either independently or alongside Suki for Clinicians, an ambient documentation solution.
Suki Chief Product Officer Abhi Pathak told Fierce Healthcare that organizations deserve the “freedom to purchase only the technology they actually need.”
“By bringing AI dictation ambient together on a single platform, Suki is giving organizations a choice rather than forcing a compromise,” Pathak said.
Suki Dictation allows clinicians to generate notes automatically, edit notes when needed directly by speaking into the microphone and place them needed in the EHR, according to Pathak.
The solution is also available to health tech companies through Suki’s API and SDKs, Pathak said. “Companies can embed this enterprise-grade AI dictation directly into their own products without bundling other infrastructure from scratch,” he said.
Pathak said feedback from several clinicians who have been piloting the tool has “been very positive.”
One clinician using Suki Dictation is Witham Medical Group pulmonary and critical care physician Edward Mintz, M.D.
Mintz said in a statement the solution has become an important part of documentation workflows given the flexibility it provides.
“Suki helps generate my notes automatically, which allows me more time during the office visit to focus on the patient,” Mintz said. “However, when I need to capture more specific clinical details, instructions, or coding information, I can edit the note with either typing or dictation, which allows me to place exactly what I want directly in the EHR. It helps me complete documentation more efficiently, saving me at least 1-2 hours a day, while ensuring my notes are accurate and reflect the complexity of the care I provide.”
Pathak said the flexibility Suki provides differentiates it from other offerings on the market,
“We are not trying to win by locking people into a bigger bundle,” Pathak said. “We are trying to give health system clinicians the freedom to choose exactly what they need, and the market is moving toward proving real differentiation, not just stacking more features into one license.”
Moreover, Pathak added documentation dictation was the company’s “entry point, not the destination.”
“Looking ahead, future innovations include things like next-generation streaming speech recognition, conversational voice editing, AI-assisted procedure note generation, intelligent voice commands, and interactive clinical assistance that lets clinicians retrieve patient information and complete documentation without leaving the EHR,” he said.