Suki consortium targets inpatient nursing workflows

This move is really about turning a physician scribe product into a hospital wide workflow product. Nurses are a much larger seat base than doctors inside most health systems, but their work is also more structured, with assessments, intake forms, discharge steps, and flowsheets that have to land correctly inside Epic, MEDITECH, and Oracle Health. A consortium is the practical way to train the product on those exact bedside workflows before broad rollout.

• The consortium members were picked to cover the main inpatient EHR stack, McLeod on Epic, Boone Health and Citizens Memorial on MEDITECH, and Fisher-Titus on Oracle Health. That gives Suki real nurse workflow data across the systems that matter most in hospitals, not just a generic nursing assistant concept.
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• The first product surface is narrow and concrete. Through AvaSure, Suki is starting with virtual care documentation, admission and discharge forms, patient assessments, intake, and bedside documentation next. That matters because nursing work is less about one long note and more about filling repeated structured fields throughout a shift.
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• This also tracks the broader market. Abridge has already moved into inpatient nursing with Mayo and enterprise deployments, and healthcare IT research shows inpatient nursing is a more contained ambient use case than the ER or surgery. The competitive race is now about who can go deepest into hospital documentation workflows, not who can transcribe a visit.
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The next step is a land grab for inpatient seats and adjacent hospital tasks. Once nurse documentation works inside the chart, the winning vendors can expand from note capture into orders, coding support, discharge coordination, and other admin work that sits downstream of the bedside conversation.