Startup's AI Slashes Paperwork for Doctors Across Africa
NVIDIA News, Thursday, May 11,2023
NVIDIA Inception member Intron Health, based in Nigeria, helps busy doctors see more patients thanks to NVIDIA NeMo.
As a medical doctor in Nigeria, Tobi Olatunji knows the stress of practicing in Africa's busy hospitals. As a machine-learning scientist, he has a prescription for it.
'I worked at one of West Africa's largest hospitals, where I would routinely see more than 30 patients a day - it's a very hard job,' said Olatunji.
The need to write detailed patient notes and fill out forms makes it even harder. Paper records slowed the pace of medical research, too.
In his first years of practice, Olatunji imagined a program to plow through the mounds of paperwork, freeing doctors to help more patients.