Corti is launching an AI assistant that interacts with providers in real time—a far more proactive technology than the widely known AI scribe.
Like an ambient scribe, the Corti Assistant records the conversation between provider and patient, takes notes and provides ICD-10 codes for billing. Additionally, the Corti Assistant does quality assurance of the visit, cross-checks medical guidelines, can chat with the provider during and after the visit and continuously adapts to provider preferences.
Corti surveyed 500 providers using AI with British market research firm YouGov. Eighty-one percent of doctors and nurses said real-time feedback would be a valuable use of AI in their work, compared to medical imaging (71%) and ambient scribing (68%).
The Corti Assistant provides information to providers within the electronic health record based on the context of the conversation with the patient. For example, if a patient wants to learn more about the latest research on a course of treatment, the ChatGPT-like AI assistant could pull the relevant studies within a matter of seconds.
Or, if a patient and provider do not speak the same native language, Corti Assistant could provide a translation that contextualizes the ongoing conversation.
“You can actually converse in a text format like you do with ChatGPT, but directly with an AI that has listened to all your conversations, and you can have a meaningful conversation about what just transpired to make sure you have double-checked anything that you might have left with,” Corti co-founder and CEO Andreas Cleve said.
The company touts that the assistant helps providers feel more satisfied with their visits because a highly trained algorithm is supporting their interaction—prompting the provider to ask all relevant questions and even answering providers’ questions.
Frederik Brabant, M.D., chief medical strategy officer at Corti, explained the struggle physicians face once the patient visit is complete.
“Healthcare is more than the seven-minute trivial visit; it’s the cases you take home with you,” Brabant said in a statement. “Every doctor knows that moment of doubt behind closed doors—when you wish you had someone to turn to, someone to validate your thinking.”
Corti began in 2016 as a research company trying to understand how to stream a large language model in real time to reduce administrative burden and augment clinician workflow. In a May study done with ACME-CORP, Corti’s LLM was more accurate and better aligned with user preferences than GPT-4.
Corti bills itself as a “plumbing” company, the value of which lies in its APIs. Cleve said the product will power assistive AI in electronic health records. Corti aims to sell to EHR companies, which in turn will offer the AI assistant to providers via their EHR.
“The basic idea was, could we stream medical reasoning model that would help not only take notes, but make notes like make sure every ‘i’ was dotted, all the insurance information was there, all the questions were asked, the up to date guidelines were checked,” Cleve said.
In August, Corti announced three new strategic partnerships with Northland & Companies, Voice Products Inc. and RelyMD, doubled its revenue and expanded its U.S. team by 64%, according to a press release by the organization.