Our Executive Vice President of Speke, Vadim Khazan, sat down for an interview with Co-Founder and Chief Editor of Healthcare IT Today, John Lynn. The two talked about the future of AI and the power of Speke AI. Read selections from the interview below:

John Lynn: Talk to us more about the Speke AI solution and how it’s evolved.

Vadim Khazan: When it comes to product development we believe the best technology lives in the background so that you don’t even realize you’re using it. It just does what you need, without modifying your workflow. That’s how we designed Speke AI. 

It’s available on iOS devices as an application. Initially, we developed it as a standalone hardware device, so that’s one of the many ways we’ve pivoted over the past six or so years. But the provider opens the application, they find the patient that they’re visiting, they walk into the room, put it down, have a conversation with the patient as though a scribe were in the room with them

We take that audio, turn it into a clinical note, and put it into their electronic health record system. 

JL: So talk to us about how Speke compares to other ambient clinical solutions. There are a lot of them. It’s a crowded space.

VK: [Regarding Speke Pro] We’ve developed a hybrid solution. We use AI in the background to create a draft of the note and then we have our trained scribe team edit the note and ensure it adheres to the provider’s preferences. 

This is one of the things that we’re very good at, having human touchpoints at every interval of the process. If the provider is not happy with the documentation, if they want it slightly different, or if they want to use specific templates or phrasing, we can modify all of that.

Want to hear more from our Executive Vice President of Speke, Vadim Khazan? You can watch the full interview here.