Orchid Launches the First HIPAA-Compliant AI-Powered Clinical Notes Solution for Mental Health Clinicians - Integrates With Any EHR To Help Automate Note Taking and Free Up Time for Patient Care
2024年7月30日 - 12:25AM
Orchid, the first and only AI-powered EHR
for mental health, announced today the public launch of Orchid AI,
its HIPAA-compliant AI-powered clinical notes solution, which helps
mental health clinicians automate clinical note-taking and reduce
other administrative burdens so they can spend more time on patient
care. Orchid AI integrates with its own EHR natively, and with any
other EHR via a simple-to-use Chrome extension.
"EHRs for mental health professionals haven’t progressed much
for decades," said Orchid CEO and founder Joseph Pomianowski.
"Often built on antiquated technology, they tend to be inflexible,
clunky, and incompatible with newer technology like AI. Orchid
created an EHR for clinicians that’s simple, contemporary, and
intuitive–one that can easily integrate with other tools clinicians
use every day. The addition of our AI-powered clinical notes
solution is a significant advancement and advantage for
clinicians.”
There is a recognized shortage of mental health clinicians, a
shortage that was exacerbated by the pandemic. The wait for care in
some areas can be months or even years long. Most clinicians–at
least 70 percent of whom are in independent practice–need to set
aside a full day a week to work on administrative tasks, limiting
their capacity to see patients.
Clinical notes are one of the primary administrative tasks for
clinicians. A critical part of mental health care, clinical notes
enable clinicians to track and review a patient’s clinical history
over time. In session, clinicians need to balance the need for
accurate note taking with being fully present while speaking with
patients. While some clinicians may already have good processes for
doing this, many others do not. Exacerbating the problem, many
insurance plans carry their own unique requirements for clinicians
to follow–processes that many find so burdensome that they opt not
to accept insurance at all. This task of writing clinical notes and
meeting requisite insurance requirements is often seen as a burden
and thus erects more barriers to care.
With Orchid, clinicians can automate much of the clinical note
writing process, by recording patient sessions (with patient
permission), or if the clinician or patient declines to be
recorded, by dictating or typing high-level notes and letting
Orchid do the rest. Clinicians can use Orchid’s existing note
templates, from SOAP to DAP notes, or use their own template which
Orchid can then follow. With the clinician’s permission, Orchid’s
AI can train itself on the clinician’s style and can use past
clinical notes to draft new ones for precise continuity of care.
Additionally, Orchid can summarize medical histories, suggest
billing codes and diagnoses, and provide after-visit summaries to
increase patient retention. It's compliant with insurance company
requirements, making it simpler for clinicians to accept insurance.
Thousands of clinicians are already using Orchid’s EHR.
Dr. David Halpern, a board-certified psychiatrist practicing in
Pennsylvania and who has been using Orchid’s EHR for over a year,
said, “Orchid has helped streamline the running of my practice so
that I can focus on patients, and the addition of Orchid AI is
fantastic - I now spend far less time on note taking than before.
Orchid understands the pressures of mental health professionals and
is continually adding features and integrations that make my work
life infinitely easier.”
"Orchid's customers report that because Orchid AI can now draft
clinical notes for them, it reduces clinical note writing from up
to 20 minutes down to a few seconds per session," said Ada Peng,
Spatial Data Analyst at Orchid and the architect of Orchid AI.
“Orchid also greatly reduces administrative time for intake
sessions, as it can pull information from intake forms to
streamline note taking.”
Orchid also offers a full EHR for mental health clinicians.
Subscriptions start at $9.99 per month.
"Our goal is to eliminate barriers to obtaining mental
healthcare," said Pomianowski. "In the future, we'll expand our
focus to adjacent healthcare specialties."
Orchid participated in Y Combinator's Winter 23 batch and raised
$1.5M from Y Combinator and strategic investors. Orchid has been
growing its clinician customer base by 20 percent month-over-month
for the past year.
About OrchidOrchid is a Y Combinator-backed
healthcare company that offers the first and only AI-powered EHR
for mental health, helping to automate note taking and reducing
other administrative burdens so clinicians can spend more time on
patient care. Many independent clinicians spend up to 25 percent of
their time on administrative work – by removing much of that,
Orchid enables clinicians to see more patients, and can relieve the
current shortage of clinicians, reduce clinician burnout, and help
more people gain access to care. Clinicians can use Orchid’s full
EHR for managing their practice and patients or leverage just the
AI-powered progress note feature on top of their legacy EHR, to
alleviate their primary administrative burden. Thousands of
clinicians are already using Orchid – start a free trial at
orchid.health.
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