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Augnito from Scribetech will streamline workflows and improve patient data processes.

[London, 2 September 2021] – Clinical voice solutions specialist, Scribetech, is working with healthcare institutions across the UK to implement its new cloud-based voice AI product suite, Augnito.

The global pandemic has further highlighted the need for more efficient, device agnostic, voice-enabled healthcare products and services and an accelerated move away from legacy devices such as pagers and unsecure commercial generic voice recognition apps. Advancements in AI and voice technology mean clinicians now have access to a secure tool that can help reduce admin by up to an hour a day and save hundreds of pounds in related data entry costs.

Augnito is an evolution of Scribetech’s digital dictation and transcription services, which have been used by the NHS for 20 years. It is a portable, secure, cloud-based, AI-driven clinical speech recognition product that offers fast, easy ways to capture live clinical data on any device, Windows, Mac, or smartphone, with 99% accuracy. It turns medical information into clinical documentation by automatically transcribing medical records, referrals, or patient letters at the point of dictation. Augnito also supports speciality language models including radiology, histopathology and cardiology and can recognise regional and international dialects.

The suite’s easy to integrate API product means it can be added to existing Trust’s clinical systems or used to speech-enable an EPR. A unique kit offers healthcare technology professionals and software developers a fast, easy way to automatically integrate speech recognition and voice-driven commands and controls into their own clinical systems.

Augnito’s key features include:

Save up to an hour on admin work every day with at-the-cursor speech recognition
Integrate speech recognition into any clinical system and easily feed information back into patient records
Streamline workflows with useful voice commands and timesaving macros
Use from anywhere with desktop, mobile and in-browser access
Reinvest time saved into delivering the highest standards of patient care
Start instantly with fast setup and no voice profile training

Shiraz Austin, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Scribetech, said: “The pandemic has highlighted the need for more efficient solutions in our healthcare systems. Augnito has been designed with input from doctors and AI scientists with the aim of significantly reducing clinicians’ workloads, allowing them to focus on providing the best possible care for their patients.”

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For more information about Scribetech and Augnito contact [email protected].
For media enquiries please contact Jenni Livesley on [email protected] or +44(0)300 1246 097.

About Scribetech and Augnito
Scribetech (UK) Ltd is a clinical voice solutions innovator, fusing 20 years of transcription and digital dictation services to the NHS, speech-to-text and clinical coding solutions for the healthcare sector, and its own speech recognition engine and advanced voice AI technology.

For two decades, Scribetech has consistently delivered accurate, efficient, cost-effective services and technology to support clinical transcription. Now, the team has combined this experience with 8 years of research and development, including 2 million hours of input from strategists, scientists, analysts, engineers and clinicians. The result is Augnito: a secure, cloud-based and AI-driven clinical speech recognition product suite.

Augnito offers fast, easy ways to capture live clinical data on any device with 99% accuracy, support for multiple medical specialties, and no need for voice profile training. It brings seamless speech recognition to daily workflows and third-party clinical systems, turning medical information into clinical documentation and making healthcare intelligence securely accessible, everywhere.

Scribetech is fully certified for the Data Security and Protection Toolkit and Cyber Essentials+. Its security, quality control and management processes are UKAS certified for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 27001 for information security management.

Augnito from Scribetech cuts workload and streamlines processes in general practice.

[London, 2 September 2021] – Clinical voice solutions specialist, Scribetech, has announced the launch of its new cloud-based voice AI product, Augnito.

Augnito is an evolution of Scribetech’s digital dictation and transcription services, which have been used in the NHS for 20 years. It has been launched in response to the need for GPs and practice staff to maximise their time and reduce contact with shared keyboards and equipment under increasing pressure as a result of the pandemic.

GPs provide an estimated 300 million patient consultations each year in the UK and each instance generates a new record in the patient’s history or an update to an existing one. This means GPs and secretaries are under increasing pressure to complete a significant amount of administration as quickly as possible.

Augnito is a portable, secure, cloud-based, AI-driven clinical speech recognition platform that offers a fast and efficient way to capture live clinical data on any device, Windows, Mac, or smartphone, with 99% accuracy. It turns medical information into clinical documentation by automatically transcribing medical records, referrals, or patient letters at the cursor and point of dictation. Augnito supports many medical speciality language models in addition to recognising all regional and international accents and dialects. With its easy to integrate API and software development kit, Augnito can be added seamlessly to existing electronic patient record systems and is proven to save GPs up to an hour of admin per day.

Shiraz Austin, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Scribetech, said: “Voice technology has a critical role to play in our healthcare system. The pandemic has highlighted the fact that clinicians are time poor and there is a clear need for more efficient solutions to help them prioritise patient care. Augnito is designed to significantly reduce the workload of GPs and support staff allowing them to focus on more important tasks.”

Speech is three times faster than typing and with Augnito, GPs can navigate clinical systems with just their voice. This enables them to maximise the speed at which medical records, referrals and patient letters are generated.

Shiraz went on to say: “Scribetech developed Augnito with the aim of delivering timely and accurately transcribed medical documents. With the input of doctors and AI scientists we’ve been able to a build a product suite we believe is the next generation of voice powered technology. It’s making a huge difference to medical institutions across the globe.”

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For more details contact [email protected]
For media enquiries please contact Jenni Livesley on [email protected] or +44(0)300 1246 097.

About Scribetech and Augnito

Scribetech (UK) Ltd is a clinical voice solutions innovator, fusing 20 years of transcription and digital dictation services to the NHS, speech-to-text and clinical coding solutions for the healthcare sector, and its own speech recognition engine and advanced voice AI technology.

With the publication of the Five Year Forward View and the Sustainability and Transformation Plans, Scribetech have developed a suite of services to support the NHS and independent sector organisations to deliver significant cost and operational efficiencies.

With over 12 years’ experience delivering digital dictation, speech recognition and clinical transcription services, Scribetech has developed a customer user group programme and research and development facilities to ensure their services meet the current and emerging needs of their customers.

The latest service proposition to arise from this process is a clinical coding service which allows for efficient translation of information from hospital case notes into codes. This is all done in full partnership with coding departments and in compliance with the specified standards.

The new brand has been designed to reflect the focus and dedication that Scribetech attributes to precision and perfection and to solidify their status as one of the leading providers. Scribetech has maintained its top ranked status in NHS frameworks for the past five years, including the most recent nationally accessible NHS Shared Business Services framework for Digital Dictation, Speech Recognition & Outsourced Transcription, awarded in March 2016.

Shiraz Austin, Managing Director, said: “We are pleased to see that our experience, persistence and approach has been recognised and rewarded so emphatically by procurement organisations. Continual inward investment has resulted in a strong progressive organisation with a thorough understanding of the needs of NHS Trusts.”

The focus on perfection is carried through Scribetech’s operations in both London and Manchester, with a staff retention programme where meticulous, continuous learning plays a key role is developing staff with specialist clinical and key customer knowledge. Coupled with a recruitment programme targeting the highest quality graduates, Scribetech retains some of the sectors most highly qualified individuals.

Rustom Lawyer, Chief Executive, said: “We understand how vital our role is and how important it is that we develop teams of staff that are the best in the industry. We leave no stone unturned to retain and recruit the best in the industry, both in the UK and India. We comply with the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity standards but also implement a range of our own highly rigorous standards developed over years to mitigate against any risk.”

Further development has also been undertaken to customise software which has been guided by both the work coming from the research and development facility and from the user group programme. This has ensured that all systems have been integrated seamlessly with Trusts’ systems.

“We are acutely aware that every Trust is very different,” said Andy Rennison, Chief Technology Officer. “Because we understand our customer’s needs very well and acknowledge that they may be very different, coupled with my own experience as an NHS Manager, we have developed the most sophisticated document creation products available within the UK Healthcare market.”

“Our customised, end-to-end digital dictation and clinical correspondence solution allows Clinicians, Medical Secretaries and Service Level Managers to regain hours of lost time and eradicate inefficiencies. Users are provided with an intuitive, NHS-friendly interface enabling them to easily create, track, transcribe and manage staff workloads, as well as allowing them to leverage additional options such as Speech Recognition, Outsourcing or smartphone-based dictation.”

“The advanced workflow management and seamless integration of outsource services enables Scribetech to become part of the extended Trust team. With Trusts facing increasing cost pressures, these tailored innovations bring huge cost savings and productivity improvements to the NHS.”

For more information, please contact Aimee Dyer at [email protected] or 0113 273 9397

Scribetech works in partnership with the NHS and Independent Health Sector to deliver digital dictation, speech recognition, clinical transcription and clinical coding services.

Established in 2002, Scribetech provide a fully managed and flexible service for the creation, easy transfer, retrieval, processing, management and analysis of clinical documents.

ScribeTECH would like to announce the launch of its 3rd custom built transcription centre in Bangalore. Following the recent award on both national framework contracts, ScribeTECH has a strong pipeline of new NHS Trusts scaling up in 2013.

Rustom Lawyer, Managing Director of ScribeTECH (India), commented:

Our new centre has been custom built keeping the latest information security and business continuity best practices in mind. Increasing demand from our clients is a strong validation of our service delivery capability and business model.

ScribeTECH (UK) Ltd is delighted to announce its success in being awarded a major framework contract to supply Outsource Transcription services across six NHS procurement hubs, covering 40% of the NHS. The framework award is the largest of its kind in England to date and covers more than 200 NHS Trusts.

ScribeTECH has signed the four year framework agreement with the NHS Yorkshire and Humber Commercial Procurement Collaborative (YHCPC), which will allow Trusts to contract transcription services directly from ScribeTECH rather than embark on a lengthy OJEU tendering process. Although the agreement was signed by YHCPS, the framework deal also covers Trusts within the East of England, South East Coast, Healthcare Purchasing Consortium and North West Pro-Cure collaborative procurement hubs.

ScribeTECH (UK) Ltd is pleased to announce that after an extended pilot, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has contracted ScribeTECH to provide Transcription Services for Queen Elizabeth and Selly Oak Hospitals. The contract has been placed by utilising the OJEU East Midlands framework contract for Transcription Services previously awarded to ScribeTECH. ScribeTECH will operate in conjunction with SRC, another successful framework contract winner, to provide a comprehensive document production system for the Trust.