TORTUS
Benefits
The AI-scribe technology showed a 23.5% increase in direct patient interaction time during appointments, 8.2% reduction in overall appointment length, 13.4% increase in patients seen per shift in A&E, 35% reduction in clinicians feeling overwhelmed by notetaking. Economic modeling indicates potential savings of £176 million in documentation time and an additional £658 million in capacity annually if scaled nationally. The technology was reported as 'transformative' with particular benefits for neurodivergent staff and those working in high-pressure environments.
Details
- Tool name
- TORTUS
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Natural Language Processing
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Natural Language Processing
- Usecase
- Document Intelligence
- Origin
- gosh.nhs.uk
- Owning team
- GOSH DRIVE (Innovation Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital)
- Date added
- 4 September 2025
- Scrape date
- Source note
- The technology uses ambient voice technology (AVT) with generative AI to listen to consultations and draft clinic notes and letters using templates that can be personalized to each clinician's style. The AI does not perform clinical decision making, and all notes and letters are checked and edited by clinicians before being saved to patient records. [Source]