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ABOUT US

Transforming patient journeys, enhancing clinician productivity

 

MAKING AI-ENHANCED TECHNOLOGY MORE ACCESSIBLE TO CLINICIANS

Scribetech was founded with a single mission: to meaningfully affect the lives of medical professionals – and patients – with impactful ways to improve efficiency and productivity. Today, we’re a trusted team delivering secure, voice-driven, AI-enhanced digital transcription through intuitive, easy to use, clinical speech recognition technology.

In a sector under constant pressure, we’re democratising access to solutions that make medical transcription and reporting faster, as well as more accurate, intelligent, and secure. As a clinician-centred developer, we ease the admin burden so every healthcare professional – from specialist consultants to GPs, dental surgeons and community nurses – can reclaim their time and refocus on patient care.

SUPPORTING MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES

As the first UK company to set up outsourced transcription for the NHS, enabling medical professionals is central to our history – and our experience transcribing over a few million minutes of dictation informs how we develop technology that feels relevant and impactful.

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2001
2001
Scribetech is founded, initially servicing the polyclinic market in USA before launching a UK service for the NHS
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2005
2005
1st company to win an OJEU tender providing Outsourced Transcription Services to an NHS Trust, supplied with bespoke digital dictation and clinical correspondence system
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2007
2007
Approved national vendor status confirmed with 4 NHS Trust contracts
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2008
2008
Ranked #1 for transcription services on first NHS Framework
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2010
2010
NHS-approved status for digital dictation, speech-to-text and outsourced transcription on 3 additional NHS Frameworks.
Further #1 ranking for transcription services on multiple NHS Frameworks
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2011
2011
Close working begins with MIT Professor Loren Wilde on AI speech recognition
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2014
2014
Renewed #1 ranking for transcription services on multiple NHS Frameworks.
Bespoke core AI engine is built with help from experts at Harvard, MIT, Sheffield University, IIT Bombay and Stanford
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2016
2016
Continued top ranking for transcription services on multiple NHS Frameworks
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2018
2018
Transcription and BPO knowledge creates Augnito technology. Development continues in close collaboration with 40 clinicians
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2019
2019
Augnito wins the APJ Abdul Kalam fellowship in India for advanced research in radiology
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2020
2020
Augnito is set up as a ‘company’ and launches Augnito Everywhere & the Augnito API SDK in India and the Gulf
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2021
2021
Scribetech implements major expansion of its senior team with specialist speech recognition expertise. Augnito solutions are launched in the UK
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2022
2022
Augnito Voice Services is integrated into award winning radiology reporting platforms binging native speech to Hexarad and Cimar UK customers
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2023
2023
Scribetech achieves its third consecutive re-appointment to the NHS Commercial Solutions Framework Agreement. Augnito Voice Services achieves impactful new integrations into RIS and PACS
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2024
2024
Scribetech becomes an AXREM member to support speech recognition adoption in the imaging and diagnostics community

MEET THE FOUNDERS

Shiraz Austin[32]
SHIRAZ AUSTIN CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTORShiraz has extensive knowledge of the NHS transcription needs and changes that have taken place in the last 20 years, as well as the digital data requirements of the private healthcare sector. These clinician-first insights underpinned the development of Augnito, transforming workflows and unlocking new levels of efficiency while maintaining accuracy and precision.
Rustom
RUSTOM LAWYER CO-FOUNDER & CEOAt the cross-section of entrepreneurship, healthcare, and technology, Rustom is on a mission to democratise the use of voice-driven AI scribe technology not just in the UK, but in all English speaking countries. Through Scribetech and Augnito, he is helping to enable a healthcare system that’s more centralised, digitised and interoperable.

Discover how our services evolved into a disruptive technology solution

We transformed a 20-year partnership with the NHS to create Augnito

A strong medical transcription heritage combined with eight years of AI R&D partnerships with engineers, analysts, and clinicians helped create Augnito. The journey to democratise the use of speech recognition and voice-AI technology started with our two founders...

 
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A SMALL, AGILE TEAM WITH SHARED VALUES

  • Disruptive innovation
  • Putting clinicians first
  • Continuous improvement
  • Delivering commercial value

Disruptive innovation (30/30)

We don’t believe in innovation for innovation’s sake. Our unique experience in transcription means we understand where technology can truly become disruptive and transformative.

Beyond providing tools and expertise to preserve accuracy and precision, we’re passionate about developing solutions that enable seismic shifts in how people work and how patients are served.

Putting clinicians first

We firmly believe that the experience of patients is determined by the experience of clinicians. When medical professionals are equipped with ways to work faster, smarter, and more collaboratively, everyone benefits.

That’s why we’re proud to be an integrated part of the healthcare ecosystem – from our AXREM membership to human-centred design based on our close relationships with and insights from clinicians.

Continuous improvement

In healthcare and technology alike, change is the only constant. With this in mind, we share a strong appetite for improvement in everything we do. While we’re proud of our position as a leader in transcription and speech recognition, there’s always more we can do.

From cloud-hosted solutions we can regularly update and refine to innovative new offerings, we’re constantly listening to and responding to new and emerging needs, as well as the opportunities made possible by new innovations.

Delivering commercial value

The realities of healthcare are harsh. Budgets are constantly limited and resources are perpetually stretched. The benefits of innovation are meaningless if they don’t make commercial sense and deliver real, measurable value.

We prioritise the bottom-line realities of hospital Trusts, private medical consultants and the wider healthcare system in everything we do, making transformation available not just at a competitive cost, but also in efficient ways that preserve capital and remove the need for infrastructure overhaul.

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