Hywel Dda University Health Board has chosen to renew its contract with Dublin-based T-Pro, allowing the continued licensing of T-Pro’s digital dictation system.
The renewal, valued at just under £614,0000, covers two modules: T-Pro Dictate and T-Pro Speech, which are currently in use across the health board.
According to Hywel Dda University Health Board, these modules offer front and back-end speech recognition, digital dictation with workflow management, analytics, and end-to-end system management.
The news comes after HDUHB moved to award a five-year contract worth £194,325 in January to Meta Compliance for a platform promoting cyber resilience against phishing attacks through training and reporting. The solution is also said to provide digital services with “metrics to track trends and identify areas where further awareness or knowledge sharing is required”.
Wider trend: Ambient voice
HTN was joined by a panel of experts from across the health sector for a focused webinar on the use of ambient scribe technology in NHS trusts. Panellists included Lauren Riddle, transformation programme manager at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare (HIoW); Ynez Symonds, CNIO at HIoW; Dom Pimenta, co-founder and CEO at Tortus AI; and Stuart Kyle, consultant rheumatologist and clinical lead for outpatient transformation at Royal Devon University Hospital. Our panel discussed the practicalities and considerations for ambient scribe implementations, from operating procedures and policies, integration and functionality, through to best practices around patient-practitioner interactions.
Barts Health NHS Trust plans to invest in ambient voice technology “at scale” following its participation in a national pilot. The pilot saw 250 staff members from across the trust using Oracle’s Clinical AI Agent to capture conversations during clinic appointments. An app on smartphones was used to record, allowing for the tech to transcribe, summarise, and turn conversations into clinical notes, reportedly generating letters for patients and GPs. More than two-thirds of clinicians that took part stated that the quality of their consultations had improved, and more than half reported saving five minutes or more per appointment, Barts Health states.
University Hospitals of Leicester and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire have awarded a £1.9 million contract to Accurx for the provision of its Ambient Voice Technology solution. The award follows a competitive procurement that saw a total of five tenders evaluated, according to the trusts, seeking to find a supplier capable of implementing and deploying AVT to support both clinical and non-clinical documentation across multiple hospital sites. The solution will be used to capture consultations and draft documents such as clinical notes, summaries, and letters, to be reviewed by clinicians for accuracy before being sent out to patients.
