Suki Assistant now provides patient summaries and allows users to ask clinical questions, reducing cognitive load, and enabling more focused patient care
Suki, the leader in AI technology for healthcare, today announced new enhancements to its flagship product, Suki Assistant, in collaboration with Google Cloud. To further support clinicians in providing the best care possible, Suki Assistant will leverage Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to expand its assistive capabilities to now provide patient summaries and Q&A functionality. With these additions, Suki becomes the industry’s first end-to-end clinical assistant by offering summaries of the patient’s medical record and answering medical reference questions, as well as assisting clinicians with documentation, coding, retrieving patient chart data, and dictation.
Studies show that U.S. clinicians spend nearly half their time on administrative tasks rather than direct patient care, resulting in burnout and diminished efficiency. Suki’s new patient summaries and Q&A features address these challenges by streamlining how healthcare providers retrieve and understand patient data before and during a visit. Having ready access to relevant, concise patient summaries and medical references will support and expedite decision-making and reduce the information overload that clinicians often face, allowing them to better focus on patient care. These new capabilities are enabled by Google Cloud FHIR API and Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Healthcare, which summarizes vast amounts of information and presents medically relevant search results based on questions asked in natural language.
“We at Google Cloud are truly excited to be partnering with Suki,” says Aashima Gupta, global director of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions, Google Cloud. “Their innovative use of our generative AI technologies is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare.”
Suki Assistant’s Q&A functionality empowers clinicians to query patient data and clinical information conversationally. By asking questions such as, “What medications is this patient taking for diabetes?” or “What’s the latest recommendation on when patients should start colon cancer screening if they have a significant family history?” clinicians can instantly access actionable information. The Q&A feature pulls patient-related data from the EHR and medical reference information from validated resources so clinicians can inform their decision-making process. The patient summaries feature provides concise summaries of recent patient appointments so the clinician can easily prepare for an upcoming appointment and provide more personalized care.
“Our goal is to make healthcare technology invisible and assistive, to give clinicians their time back to care for patients,” said Punit Soni, Founder and CEO of Suki. “Today marks a milestone in Suki’s history: becoming the industry’s first end-to-end AI assistant. In partnership with Google Cloud, these latest features change the paradigm of how clinicians access and consume data that informs care decisions, giving them instant access to highly relevant, digestible insights. Suki will continue to work with a variety of best in class AI models to transform clinician administrative workflows, lifting the burden from clinicians so they are free to focus their energies on patient care.”
Beginning today, a select group of clinicians at health systems can use Suki and Google Cloud’s healthcare patient summarization feature, which is generated from previous patient documentation and chart information within the EHR. Broader availability is planned for soon after. The Q&A functionality will be available starting in 2025.
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