Under the motto “Code. Create. Care”, 60 participants developed ideas for the future of health and care at this year’s HealthHack of the Hannover Braunschweig Göttingen Wolfsburg metropolitan region. At the idea pitch Dominik Schulz presented the idea of voice-based documentation that is meant to relieve nursing staff.
„Gleich nach meinem Pitch kam Mona Bickel-Dabadghao auf mich zu, die ebenfalls an einem ähnlichen Konzept arbeitete“, Schulz reports. Together with the medical student from the University of Lübeck, Ludwig Link (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover) and Ramakrishnan Sankara (DB E.C.O. Group) they formed Team AVAR (Actual Voice Augmented Reality) and finished the two-day competition in second place, which comes with 500 euros of funding.
The AVAR prototype automatically documents the ward-round conversation, including vital signs and lab results. A Microsoft Azure speech-to-text service transcribes the conversation; an AI then creates the documentation according to care guidelines and proposes concrete measures for doctors and nurses, with links to further information. „In Zukunft muss hier natürlich eine lokale KI in Deutschland betrieben werden, um die datenschutzrechtlichen Anforderungen zu wahren. Das Projekt wird auf jeden Fall fortgesetzt“, says Schulz.
Source: tu-clausthal.de (15 May 2025).