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Medical AI assistant startup TORTUS raises £3.3m

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TORTUS, a London-based startup using generative AI to assist clinicians with time-consuming admin tasks, has raised $4.2m (£3.3m).

Founded in 2022 by a cardiologist and a machine learning engineer, TORTUS has built a platform, called Operating System Leverage in Electronic Records (OSLER), which can automate documentation and administrative workflows for medical professionals.

The OSLER platform ‘listens’ to conversations between clinicians and patients, automatically creating documents which can then be signed off by humans. The platform also processes notes from doctors.

TORTUS said despite collecting this medical data to automate workflows, the platform does not have recording or storage capacity, to ensure confidentiality is maintained.

TORTUS has launched the pilot of its platform in partnership with the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH).

“Throughout my 16-year medical career I’ve witnessed countless cases of burnout amongst my colleagues, and I’ve experienced it first-hand on more than one occasion,” said TORTUS co-founder, Dr Dom Pimenta.

“I know that over-worked, stressed clinicians can’t deliver the best quality of care to patients and that this negatively impacts their patients’ experiences and outcomes.”

The funding round was led by Khosla Ventures.

“Doctors become doctors because they want to care for patients, but the reality today is that they are burdened with administrative work resulting in physician burnout and compromised patient care,” said Adina Tecklu, partner at Khosla Ventures.

“TORTUS is the AI assistant for every physician, in every patient visit. It automates documentation and critical workflows so that doctors can spend more time with patients and no time on paperwork, a huge boon to both physician and patient wellbeing.”

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