Health NZ develops AI assistant with Māori tech company

NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is working with Māori owned tech company Awa Digital to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to assist clinicians in transcribing patient notes.

Tuhi is a mobile and web app that can ‘listen’ to the audio of a patient consult and transcribe it, as well as analyse and organise the consultation notes before they are saved to a patient’s record.

Jon Herries, group manager of emerging health technology and innovation, told the MTANZ Conference in June that clinicians believe it will save them time by creating the first version of the clinical notes, which can then be edited and added to.

He said Health NZ did 72.5 million community and outpatient activities in the first quarter of this year.
From a productivity perspective, saving just one minute from each of them would be worth $50 million a quarter.

“When I have talked to clinicians, they think on average it will probably save them somewhere between five and 20 minutes per patient,” Herries told attendees.

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