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Let the doctor do the doctor's job

We have all been to a doctor, right? And I am sure everybody had the experience of seeing the doctor care about the patient for 5 minutes and then write his medical notes for 15 minutes out of a 20-minutes session.

The burden of clinical documentation makes a lot of bad things. Spending half of the day writing medical notes negatively impacts the doctors' work/life balance and our perception of medical care. But the main issue is that patient does not receive enough attention to his problems, and the quality of medical help suffers as a result.

DeepScribe, an AI-powered medical transcription platform, has raised $30 million in Series A funding to solve the issue. Their software listens to a natural doctor-patient conversation, records, summarizes and integrates it into the physician's health record system of choice.

For example, the application records patient exams while listening and preparing clinical notes. DeepScribe then uploads the notes directly into Electronic Health Records (EHR) fields. That enables physicians to review and sign their fully equipped notes in the appropriate EHR fields.

DeepScribe says its platform saves physicians an average of three hours a day and costs around one-sixth the cost of human medical scribes. The company has saved physicians over 2.5 million minutes of documentation to date. In terms of reliability, DeepScribe says physicians encounter less than one correction per note on average after 20 days of usage.

As for the future of its tech, the company hopes to go beyond providing efficiencies for the physician. Their ultimate goal is to improve outcomes for patients.

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