Microsoft has partnered with medical note taking software startup Autoscriber to further scale the latter’s software across the EMEA region. The company’s speech-based AI tool frees up large chunks of doctors’ time and allows them to stay focused on their patients during consults.
Based out of the Netherlands and South Africa, Autoscriber offers an ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) product that automatically generates summaries from real-time doctor-patient conversations and fills out an Electronic Health Record (EHR).
This reduces the time doctors need to spend on admin by 20% to 50%. In actual time, this equals approximately five minutes per consultation. In addition, easing administrative burdens can help reduce burnout among medical personnel.
Autoscriber also says its ACI tool results in more complete notes for the healthcare system. The AI engine supports multiple languages including English, Dutch, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish, and Afrikaans.
“Our mission is to enable human-centric and data-driven healthcare, giving doctors time and attention for better quality patient care,” said co-founder and CEO, Jacqueline Kazmaier. “Autoscriber has been rolled out across multiple departments at major hospitals, as well as primary care and psychology practices, and we are already seeing these benefits take shape”.
Microsoft has now chosen to support Autoscriber as the solution provider for ambient clinical intelligence in the EMEA region.
The startup already has ongoing partnerships and integrations with established electronic health record providers but says that this strategic collaboration with Microsoft is of major importance in order to scale up efficiently within and across clients.
The tech giant will be actively supplying Autoscriber with special partnership resources to further commercialise its product. It will also provide dedicated compute resources to help Autoscriber roll out the product at scale.
“The models we run to process the audio of doctor-patient interactions and generate structured clinical encounter notes quickly become GPU-intensive,” said co-founder and CTO Koen Bonenkamp. “With the worldwide shortage of GPUs, the support of Microsoft to scale our architecture and reserve technical capacity is critical to our ability to offer our solution to hundreds of clinicians at the same time at a single healthcare provider.”
Microsoft offers dedicated cloud services for healthcare providers. One of the four key outcomes mentioned as part of the services is the use of AI-enabled tools that enhance productivity to allow clinicians to focus on high-value work.
“As Microsoft we aim to service our healthcare clients in the best way possible and to support our clients with the optimisation of their workflow and services,” said Ralph Haupter, President of Microsoft EMEA, adding that the administrative burden of health workers and the lack of structured and interoperable data are known problems.
Jacqueline Kazmaier founded Autoscriber with Koen Bonenkamp in 2021 out of a prior collaboration with Leiden University Medical Centre. With the backing of one of the biggest forces in tech in the world, the company now intends to become the EMEA market leader in the field of ambient clinical intelligence in the next 12 months.
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