Tortus, a London, UK-based generative AI startup building an assistant for doctors, raised £3.3M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures. Other investors included Entrepreneur First, former NHS Chair Lord David Prior, and Eric Jang, VP of AI at 1X Technologies, also joined as Chief Scientific Advisor.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the development and compliance of the O.S.L.E.R. agent, broadening its current capabilities to include performing important tasks such as placing prescription orders and adding diagnoses and coding to the system, giving more time back to clinicians. It will also focus on expansion into additional hospitals and primary care organisations, with a number of primary care sites already set to go live in February 2024.
Led by CEO Dr Dom Pimenta, Tortus provides a generative AI platform, O.S.L.E.R., that was designed to assist clinicians by automating a variety of time-consuming everyday tasks, with the goal of eliminating burnout and human error from healthcare. It automates the clinical documentation process for final sign off by clinicians – including pre-chart summaries, visit notes, lab requests, coding, and more – by listening to the clinician’s conversation with their patient and seamlessly interacting with any electronic health records (EHR) system.
Commenting on the news, Dom Pimenta said: “We created O.S.L.E.R to free clinicians from their keyboards and the burden of administrative tasks. The technology delivers an immediate improvement to the engagement between a clinician and patient, which is the foundation of every healthcare system.”
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12/02/2024