NVIDIA has made an investment into Doctolib to support the health tech supplier develop artificial intelligence solutions and models for healthcare teams and patients.
Doctolib will use the investment to support its recruitment of AI skills and expertise, as well work with NVIDIA experts on the development of its AI models.
The company said it has been using NVIDIA technologies for a year, supporting healthcare teams on administrative tasks and is currently working on developing clinical decision support assistants. For patients, Doctolib notes plans to develop further its patient application, “a personal AI health assistant that answers any health questions and guides them through every step of their care journey”.
“In the coming months, Doctolib will accelerate the development of AI models based on open models (open-weight and open-source) and invest even more in its European infrastructure,” the company added.
Stanislas Niox-Chateau, co-founder & CEO of Doctolib, said: “We are convinced that AI can have a tremendous impact for patients and health professionals. To achieve this, we are building our own models and technologies, created with European health professionals and hospitals. NVIDIA’s investment will allow us to accelerate our AI hiring and our development. It builds on the work of our teams, who are making Doctolib one of Europe’s champions in healthcare AI.”
In May, Doctolib announced an investment into Medicus with commitments of over £100 million, to hire 150 people and establish a full R&D centre in London.
“Doctolib and Medicus will build on the strong product, team and understanding of NHS primary care that Medicus has built, while bringing Doctolib’s AI and technological expertise and track record with more than 40,000 GPs in Europe,” Doctolib stated.
The offering for GP practices includes a platform incorporating functionality across scheduling, documentation, care coordination, patient follow-up, and more. Moving forward, there will be a focus, according to the suppliers, on practical use cases such as documentation support, workflow automation, and administrative assistance for GP teams.
Wider trend: Digital in primary care
HTN was joined for a recent HTN Now webinar by an expert panel to discuss AI in primary care, covering successes and challenges with implementing AI in primary care, governance, adoption, and other practical learnings. Katie Baker, Director UK & Ireland of Tandem Health; Mateen Ellahi, GP and member of NHSE primary care advisory group, South Stockton PCN, Elm Tree Surgery; and Paul Miller, head of IT at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB made up our panel.
For another HTN Now panel discussion, we spoke to experts from across the healthcare sector on the future of general practice core systems. This included exploring potential opportunities and areas of future growth, considering challenges such as integration and interoperability, and outlining what good looks like in this space. Our panellists were Bex Cottey, business manager for Conisbrough GPs, Emma Stratful, chief operating officer at OX.DH, Dr Sheikh Mateen Ellahi, GP and practice partner at ELM Tree Surgery and South Stockton Primary Care Network and Dr Shanker Vijayadeva, GP lead, digital transformation for the London region at NHS England.
Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has published its primary care action plan, setting out a roadmap for key digital programmes and priorities across the region. Rolling out digital triage and online consultations will continue and ambient voice technology will be piloted in selected practices as part of a system-wide trial, the ICB states. By the end of 2026/27, the board expects to have realised a “demonstrable reduction” in clinician admin burden, and an improvement in the quality and consistency of consultation notes. It also hopes to achieve associated improvements in clinician experience and patient-facing time.
