A Copenhagen-based startup, Corti, has designed an AI clinical assistant that it says can provide support and assistance to healthcare professionals (HCPs) with day-to-day work.
The platform which was launched in December generates insights and recommendations during consultations based on the patient-provider interaction. Corti says that Corti Assistant can lower administrative burden while reducing errors in paperwork.
Corti Assistant takes live dictation, writes out report summaries, and updates records and documentation in real-time.
But its “more than just a medical AI scribe”, Corti says.
The proprietary foundational model underpinning the agent is trained on 250,000 plus patient interactions. Corti re-trains the models with inputs collecting real-time feedback from doctors. This enables it to prompt the provider to ask relevant questions.
To avoid bias, the models are validated against public research and publications in medical literature, the company said. They are further evaluated with “alignment models” that scan for bias.
Additionally, fact-checking and “explainable AI” are available for end users to validate the responses at the end.
Every day, doctors are flooded with extraordinary volumes of patient appointments. In between, they are slammed with admin work which includes creating patient profiles, updating patient records with new info, ensuring compliance and managing communication. The risk of error is very high.
Corti aims to support and streamline this workflow allowing HCPs to focus more on patient care than on paperwork.
Dialog with patients is critical to patient care, but the healthcare industry is very focused on images and tests, said the company, in an interview with Stephen Foskett, president of Tech Field Day, part of The Futurum Group, back in November.
HCPs spend so much time documenting instead of talking to patients, they added.
Over the last couple of years, the FDA has approved a number of new programs that use AI, but doctors remain skeptical about the veracity of the responses. A small study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, found that doctors using ChatGPT4 did only marginally better than doctors that used conventional resources. As a result, more doctors are relying on AI for secondary back-office organization where staff is overwhelmed with rote tasks.
Corti Assistant is currently available in the US, UK and Europe.
