Intron Health, a Nigeria AI company that provides speech-to-text transcription tools for healthcare workers, has raised 1.6 million in a pre-seed funding round. The startup will use the capital injection to hire more employees, deepen its research efforts, and strengthen its cloud-native and on-prem capabilities.
Launched in 2020 by Dr Tobi Olatunji, Intron Health helps healthcare professionals enter medical records by converting speech into text.This solution is important because doctors in many African countries attend to hundreds of patients daily and have a lot of paperwork to deal with. Intron Health cuts the time doctors cut time spend on writing a patients prescription through its product. Doctors can enter patients medical records, give prescriptions, and generate patient reports by voice commands.
Intron Health claims it has helped reduce the turnaround time for radiology reporting at the University of College Hospital, Ibadan, from 48 hours to 20 minutes.
We are improving efficiency and health outcomes and positively impacting hospital finances, Olatunji told TechCabal.
While AIs application on the continent has been affected by inadequate data, Intron Healths speech-to-text AI transcription tool accounts for many African accents. Olatunji, who has over a decade of deep learning experience, says the datasets are trained on over 3.5 million audio clips across African languages 288 accents.
