Medical doctors play a key role in healthcare systems worldwide. They are specialized in practices of diagnosis, medicine, treatment or surgery. The daily activities in hospitals are dependent on having access to information from various data sources, which can be both people and technology. The conditions of a patient is documented both quantitative and qualitative, in numbers or text. For example, blood pressure can be measured as a value but a mental state can only be perceived. The processes of documentation often involves manual steps and retrieving the documentation can be timely. The time consumed to store and distribute information can be reduced by enabling doctors to do it vocally, on the go, and hands-free. It will simply remove the manual steps for critical communication processes.
Ready, Doctor is an Alexa skill build on Amazon Web Services that enable doctors to speak and interact with a voice enabled device. Doctors can create metrics for their activities, make requests for condition of patients, record patient journals, and measure combined sets of data.
Incumbent players with proprietary solutions in the market are:
- Dolbey Fusion Expert, Powerful Front-End Speech Recognition
- MModal Fluency Direct, High-Accuracy, Once-and-Done Speech Understanding
- Nuance PowerScribe, Speech Recognition Radiology Reporting
The overall objective is to increase efficiency for medical doctors in the healthcare sector through implementing Information and Communication Technology. Doctors can benefit from less paper work and reduced time to action.
This project is based on partnerships and collaboration with a range of industry players in the Information and Communication Technology sector. The incumbent players providing Natural Processing Language (NLP) devices in the healthcare sector are not utilizing the strength of partners in any way. The prospective partners for Ready, Doctor have all been qualified based on their core capabilities and will equally play a role in establishing the ecosystem around delivering a turn-key service to the healthcare sector.
- Amazon Web Services, healthcare cloud infrastructure
- Nokia, critical communication infrastructure
- Telekom Healthcare Solutions, communication service provider