Auotscriber partners with Microsoft to scale ambient clinical intelligence software

Microsoft has partnered with medical note-taking software startup Autoscriber to further scale the latter’s software in the EMEA region. The company’s voice-based AI tool frees up large amounts of doctors’ time so they can stay focused on their patients during consultations.

Autoscriber, based in the Netherlands and South Africa, offers an ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) product that automatically generates summaries of real-time doctor-patient conversations and populates an electronic health record (EHR).

This reduces the time doctors have to spend on administration by 20% to 50%. In reality this amounts to approximately five minutes per consultation. In addition, reducing administrative burdens can help reduce burnout among medical staff.

Autoscriber also says the ACI tool results in more complete notes for the healthcare system. The AI ​​engine supports multiple languages, including English, Dutch, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Afrikaans.

“Our mission is to enable people-centered and data-driven healthcare, freeing physicians’ time and attention for better quality patient care,” said co-founder and CEO, Jacqueline Kazmaier. “Autoscriber has been rolled out across multiple departments at major hospitals, as well as primary care and psychology practices, and we are already seeing these benefits taking shape.”

Microsoft has now chosen to support Autoscriber as a provider of clinical intelligence solutions in the EMEA region.

The startup already has ongoing partnerships and integrations with established electronic health record providers, but says this strategic partnership with Microsoft is key to efficiently scaling within and across customers.

The tech giant will actively provide Autoscriber with special partnership resources to further commercialize its product. It will also provide dedicated computing resources to help Autoscriber roll out the product at scale.

“The models we use to process the audio of doctor-patient interactions and generate structured clinical encounter notes are quickly becoming GPU-intensive,” said co-founder and CTO Koen Bonenkamp. “With the global GPU shortage, Microsoft’s support to scale our architecture and reserve technical capacity is critical to our ability to offer our solution to hundreds of physicians simultaneously across a single healthcare provider.”

Microsoft offers special cloud services for healthcare providers. One of the four key outcomes listed as part of the services is the use of AI-enabled tools that increase productivity so doctors can focus on high-quality work.

“As Microsoft, we strive to serve our healthcare customers in the best possible way and support our customers with the optimization of their workflow and services,” said Ralph Haupter, president of Microsoft EMEA, adding that the administrative burden on healthcare professionals and the lack of structured and interoperable data are well-known problems.

Jacqueline Kazmaier founded Autoscriber together with Koen Bonenkamp in 2021 from a previous collaboration with the Leiden University Medical Center. With the backing of one of the world’s leading technology forces, the company now plans to become the EMEA market leader in clinical intelligence within the next twelve months.