Commons Clinic, an innovative leader in multi-specialty healthcare with a focus on musculoskeletal (MSK) care, is reimagining patient and clinician experiences through a new partnership with DeepScribe. By integrating DeepScribe ambient AI into their care delivery model, Commons Clinic aims to streamline the documentation process – with less time spent on administrative work, physicians can dedicate more time to patient care.
In an effort to redefine the $84 billion ambulatory care market, Commons Clinic delivers expert orthopedic care throughout a patient's entire care journey. Their advanced model focuses on all-inclusive services, encompassing everything from finding convenient locations and initial consults, to price transparency and minimally invasive procedures. The goal? Seamless, comprehensive specialty care that leads to better outcomes for patients.
In partnership with DeepScribe, Commons Clinic is equipping clinicians with ambient AI to help realize that goal: reduce documentation stress and make it easier to deliver outstanding care.
“Whether in an exam room, on the phone with a patient, or in a care team huddle, those human-to-human conversations drive great care,” said Nick Aubin, CEO and Co-founder at Commons Clinic. “Bringing those conversations together and making them useful for physicians, nurses, care navigators, caregivers, and – most importantly – patients might just be the human touch that counterintuitively can only be solved by AI.”
Through specialty-specific AI tailored for musculoskeletal care and more than 50 customization options, DeepScribe is helping Commons Clinic specialists seamlessly integrate AI scribing into their practices. But the collaboration goes beyond automating clinical visit notes: DeepScribe and Commons Clinic are working together to apply ambient AI to procedural notes, further reducing the documentation burden.
“This partnership underscores the importance of customization for ambient AI, for physicians to have specialty-specific workflows, particularly in fields like orthopedics and pain management,” said Dr. Dean Dalili, Chief Medical Officer at DeepScribe. “Together with Commons Clinic, we’re crafting an exceptional product, with AI that truly understands and addresses the unique needs of MSK specialists and their patients.”
The partnership is also helping Commons Clinic succeed within their value-based care model. By capturing and structuring detailed clinical data and relevant codes across their organization, Commons Clinic can more easily meet program requirements. It’s this rich data – and the potential it holds to revolutionize care delivery and reimbursement – that Nick Aubin and Dr. Dean Dalili discussed on the inaugural episode of The Surgeon’s Record, the foray into video for the popular Substack from orthopedic surgeon, Ben Schwartz, M.D. Here are a few highlights:
On the importance of data:
Nick Aubin: "It's ultimately the data that comes out of richer notes, richer insights, more human anecdotes about what's happening with that patient that allows someone in my seat to look at the real human toll of a musculoskeletal issue and say, 'Okay, we can build something new.'"
Dr. Dean Dalili: "The very foundational layer for us is the ability to create the note and integrate into workflows in a way that's clinically relevant. Moving beyond that is what we at DeepScribe call ambient intelligence – how we take that information and inform the care that's being delivered in real-time."
On value-based care:
Nick Aubin: “When I get at the core of value-based care, it's ultimately about aligned incentives. And you can't really have, in my opinion, aligned incentives if people don't have the same data.”
Dr. Dean Dalilli: “If you look at the data today, we know that ambient AI saves time, we know that it makes providers happier, and we know that it makes patients happier. And I think that what we have to prove is that it makes care better and it makes care more valuable for all those involved.”
To hear more from Nick Aubin and Dr. Dalili on overcoming AI skepticism and the importance of customization and specialty specific models, watch the webinar here.
For more details on the partnership between Commons Clinic and DeepScribe, read the official press release announcement.
