AWS HealthScribe aims to trim the time doctors spend entering patient visit summaries into their systems. Amazon promises not to store conversations or use them to train AI models.
Amazon’s AWS division today unveiled a new AI and speech-recogition tool intended to help doctors enter patient visit notes into their systems.
For now, AWS HealthScribe is only available as a preview in Northern Virginia (home of Amazon HQ2). But it promises to generate transcripts with « word-level timestamps » of patient visits, and automatically « identifies speaker roles, like patient and clinician, for each dialogue in the transcript, » Amazon says.
This is something other AI tools also do, like Otter.ai for meetings, but AWS HealthScribe customizes the experience to the medical context.
« Clinicians often spend nearly twice as much time on administrative tasks instead of face-to-face interactions with patients, » Amazon says, citing an American Hospital Association study.
