What You Should Know: 

– Commure, a healthcare technology company, has announced the direct embedding of its Ambient technology within MEDITECH Expanse Now, the physician’s mobile application in the MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform. 

– The collaboration empowers healthcare organizations using Expanse Now to streamline clinical documentation and reduce administrative burdens, which allows clinicians to focus more fully on patient care within their familiar mobile workflows. This solution is now available to early adopters, with general availability to follow.

A New Era for Clinical Documentation

Commure’s Ambient technology is designed to deliver real-time, AI-powered clinical documentation that fits naturally into the clinician’s workflow. By intelligently capturing and structuring patient-clinician conversations, the solution saves providers an average of 90 minutes per day. This helps reduce cognitive overload and enables clinicians to stay present with their patients.

Seamless Integration and Strategic Advantages

This integration is part of Commure’s comprehensive suite of ambient documentation solutions that address workforce shortages, inefficiencies, and administrative burdens. The Ambient Suite keeps clinicians in their workflow, supports customization and quality capture, and extends across various care settings, including ambulatory environments and the emergency department. Built with Commure’s revenue cycle expertise, the Ambient Suite enhances documentation quality by leveraging both clinical and financial insights.

The embedded offering in Expanse Now complements other previously released ambient mobile and web application options that also make use of deep bidirectional integration with MEDITECH Expanse. Commure works directly with clinicians and administrators to boost margins, reduce burdens, and improve patient engagement. The company integrates with over 60 EHRs and powers millions of encounters annually.Ian Shakil, Chief Strategy Officer of Commure, stated that integrating the company’s Ambient AI technology directly within MEDITECH Expanse Now is a significant step forward in their mission to transform healthcare organizations into “the most advanced, intelligent, and human-centered systems”. The integration uses gold-standard technology to securely exchange data and accurately upload the generated notes back into discrete sections of MEDITECH Expanse.

Throughout September, nominations are open for the 2025 Tech Trendsetters award, celebrating the visionaries who spearhead innovation in housing technology.

As HousingWire opens the floor for the 2025 nominations, one clear theme from past winners emerges: the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) . From underwriting to compliance and customer experience, AI is reshaping the operations of the mortgage and real estate sectors.

To spotlight this evolution, we reached out to previous Tech Trendsetters for their insights on the technologies set to define the next five years. Here’s what they shared:

“Agentic AI will fundamentally reshape our industry in the next five years. It offers the promise of freeing us up to spend more time and resources delivering custom homebuying journeys powered by autonomous AI agents, designed to address each borrower’s unique situation and needs — and drive greater brand loyalty down the road.” — Praveen Chandramohan — senior vice president of origination growth solutions at Cotality

“Agentic AI. Not another chatbot. A system that takes a goal and executes across tools without handholding. In real estate, that means a listing launch that drafts the brief, builds compliant creative, books the ads, updates the website and schedules follow-ups. In mortgage, it assembles docs, verifies data, prices scenarios and moves the file through conditions. Forget five years — I think we are close to this.” — Lindsay Listanski, national vice president of marketing at Coldwell Banker

“I project that AI will permeate the mortgage space and be leveraged heavily starting with operational efficiency for repetitive tasks and then encompassing lead generation, QC processing, help desk support and compliance. Expect it to heavily shape our industry in transformational ways in the next several years.” — Eric Lyon, SVP and single-family business technology officer at Freddie Mac

“AI-powered underwriting and property valuation will not only accelerate approvals but also improve risk assessment, opening the door for more equitable access to financing. Combined with blockchain-based title and transaction records, the result could be a faster, more transparent and more trustworthy closing process, measured in days instead of weeks.” — Chris Hilliard, CEO at Winnow Solutions LLC

Do you know someone who’s pushing the boundaries of housing technology? Nominations for the 2025 HousingWire Tech Trendsetters are open now through Sept. 30, 2025. Click here to submit.

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In discussing generative artificial intelligence (‘It’s going to be a life skill’: educators discuss the impact of AI on university education, 13 September) you appear to underestimate the challenges that large language model (LLM) tools such as ChatGPT present to higher education. The argument that mastering AI is a life skill that students need in preparation for the labour market is unconvincing. Our experience is that generative AI undermines teaching and learning, bypasses reflection and criticality, and deflects students from reading original material.

Student misuse of generative AI is widespread. Claims that AI helps preparation or research is simply cover for students taking shortcuts that do not develop their learning skills. Assessments are widely channelled through ChatGPT, disregarding universities’ usually feeble guidance and rules. Generative AI results in generic, dull and often factually incorrect output.

For example, we asked students to interpret a short article by Henry Ford from 1922. Many answers suggested that the autocratic and racist Ford was developing a “sophisticated HR performance management function for his business” and that he was a “transformational leader”.

In many degree programmes, LLMs have little to no practical value. Their use sabotages and degrades students’ learning and undermines critical analysis and creativity. If we are to make better sense of the impact of AI on work, education and everyday life, we need to be more sceptical and less celebratory.
Prof Leo McCann
Prof Simon Sweeney
University of York