“Voice user interfaces are an essential step to humanizing the EHR,” says Vanderbilt University Medical Centers Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, who will be speaking at HIMSS19. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of the first provider organizations to develop a voice assistant for electronic health records that can give verbal summaries back to providers using natural language processing.With VEVA, the Vanderbilt EHR Voice Assistant, the health system is using NLP artificial intelligence from Nuance to help interpret voice requests, and HL7’s SMART on FHIR standard to pull pertinent data and provide relevant summaries.

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