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AI for hospitals

AI takes on the documentation and administration around care: notes, discharge summaries, coding, prior authorisations, denials, rosters and theatre lists. Clinicians review and decide every clinical step, and patient data stays inside approved systems.

use cases
28
tools
7

known issues

Where the time goes today

  1. Clinicians spend more of the day on the record and the inbox than with patients.

  2. Discharges wait on paperwork, medication lists and transport that nobody is tracking in one place.

  3. Prior authorisations and claim denials tie up billing teams and delay care.

  4. Rosters are rebuilt every time someone calls in sick, and gaps go to expensive agency staff.

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Top use cases

The jobs we would usually look at first for hospitals, best first.

  • Healthcare

    Ambient clinical notes

    With the patient's consent, the consultation is turned into a draft note in your template, which the clinician checks, edits and signs in the record.

    Custom app
  • Healthcare

    Discharge summaries drafted from the record

    A first draft of the discharge summary is assembled from the stay's notes, results and medication changes, ready for the treating doctor to check and sign.

    Agent
  • Healthcare

    Discharge readiness tracking

    Every patient expected to go home has a live list of what is still outstanding, such as medicines, transport or a care package, with owners and chasers.

    Automation
  • Healthcare

    Prior authorisation packets

    Prior authorisation requests are assembled from the record against each payer's criteria, with missing evidence flagged, then submitted by staff.

    Agent
  • Healthcare

    Claim denials and appeal letters

    Denied claims are sorted by reason and value, the fix or appeal is prepared with evidence from the record, and billing staff approve every submission.

    Agent
  • Healthcare

    Nurse rosters and shift fill

    Rosters are drafted within your rules and skill mix, and when someone calls in sick the right bank staff are offered the shift first.

    Agent
  • Healthcare

    Theatre list scheduling

    Theatre lists are built from waiting lists with realistic case durations, so fewer lists overrun or finish early, and gaps from cancellations are refilled.

    Custom app

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More use cases for hospitals

  • Customer service

    Patient and client intake

    Intake forms, emails and scanned documents are read, checked for gaps and entered into your practice system before the first appointment.

    Automation
  • Customer service

    Appointment reminders and no-show follow-up

    Customers get reminders by text or a short call, can confirm or rebook in the same thread, and missed appointments get a same-day follow-up.

    Voice/chat agent
  • Operations

    Stock and reorder alerts

    Watches stock levels and sales across your channels, warns you before items run out and drafts reorders that take lead times into account.

    Automation
  • Operations

    SOP assistant for frontline staff

    Staff on the floor, in the kitchen or on site ask how to do a task and get the steps from your own procedures, on their phone.

    Company assistant
  • HR and people

    Policy and benefits assistant in Slack or Teams

    Staff ask leave, benefits and policy questions in Slack or Teams and get an answer from your own handbook, with a link to the exact section.

    Company assistant
  • HR and people

    Interview scheduling

    Candidates book, move or cancel interviews by email or text with an assistant that sees your interviewers' real calendars and confirms in minutes.

    Voice/chat agent
  • HR and people

    Training content built from SOPs

    Your written procedures become short training modules, checklists and quizzes, kept in step with the SOPs as they change.

    Agent
  • HR and people

    Timesheet and payroll checks

    Timesheets are checked against rosters, leave and pay rules before each pay run, and odd entries go to the manager with a plain reason.

    Automation
  • IT

    Joiner and leaver account setup

    An agent that reads new starters and leavers from your HR system, then builds or removes their email, app logins and devices to a checklist.

    Agent
  • IT

    Phishing report triage

    Checks every email staff report as suspicious, explains the verdict, and pulls matching copies from other inboxes once your IT lead agrees.

    Agent
  • Legal and compliance

    Policy Q&A with clause citations

    Answers staff questions about your handbook, policies and procedures in plain words and quotes the exact clause each answer comes from.

    Company assistant
  • Legal and compliance

    Regulatory update digests

    Watches the regulators and sources you follow, filters out what does not apply, and sends a short weekly digest linked to the policies affected.

    Automation
  • Healthcare

    Clinical coding support

    Coders get a ranked list of candidate codes with the supporting text from the record, looked up in the official code sets, for them to accept or change.

    Custom app
  • Healthcare

    Referral intake and routing

    Incoming referrals are read, checked for missing information and routed to the right service, with urgency confirmed by a clinician.

    Automation
  • Healthcare

    Patient message reply drafts

    Portal messages are sorted by type, and routine ones get a draft reply in the clinic's voice, which a clinician or nurse edits and sends.

    Agent
  • Healthcare

    Test results follow-up tracking

    Results the lab has flagged as abnormal are tracked until a clinician acknowledges them and the agreed action happens, with escalation if they stall.

    Automation
  • Healthcare

    Imaging follow-up recommendations

    Follow-up recommendations in radiology reports, such as a repeat scan in six months, are tracked until ordered or closed by a clinician.

    Automation
  • Healthcare

    Medication list preparation

    Medicines from letters, records and charts are gathered into one list with differences highlighted, for a pharmacist to reconcile.

    Agent
  • Healthcare

    Patient instructions in plain language

    Approved patient leaflets and discharge instructions are rewritten in plain language and translated, then checked by a clinician before use.

    Custom app
  • Healthcare

    Patient safety incident themes

    Incident reports are grouped by theme and contributing factor, so the safety team sees patterns across wards and sites each week.

    Automation
  • Healthcare

    Insurance eligibility checks

    Coverage and benefits are checked electronically before every appointment, and problems go to the front desk days ahead instead of at check-in.

    Automation

integrations

Tools we connect to

Systems businesses like yours commonly run. Wherever it can, the AI works inside the tools your team already uses. If yours is not listed, ask: most tools with an API can be connected.

  • Epic
  • Oracle Health (Cerner)
  • MEDITECH
  • athenahealth
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Allocate
  • ServiceNow

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