Spin-off from NorwAI, NTNU and University of Oslo

Medbric pioneers AI healthcare 

Medbric is a natural born child of the collaboration between AI research and healthcare industry. With well applied technology, the founders of Medbric have created an innovative solution designed specifically for general practitioners (GPs) in the primary healthcare service.  

Medbric assists doctors in consultation by listening to the consultation and writing the medical record. The AI-based solution combines the skills of a medical secretary with the experience of a senior doctor. 

More than 100 GPs have participated in Medbrics pilot program, with the following results:

• 74% reported improved communication with patients 
• 63% experienced reduced fatigue and more energy at the end of the day 
• 56% noted enhancements in their medical record notes 
• 40% saved 30-40 min / day on administrative work

Medbric’s innovation lies in its AI agent system, the first to healthcare agents are Aila and Aisa:

• Aila: This agent listens and records conversations between doctors and patients, transcribing the dialogue into organized medical notes, ready for journal entry.
• Aisa: is and medical knowledge expert, and finds answers to all kind of relevant questions from medical databases and can also help to find relevant information in law, social support, NAV systems and other sources.  

Basicly, Medbric combines different technologies with AI agents working together. AI Agents are software components using AI-models and tools to solve multistep tasks. 

The new company was presented at the NorwAI Innovate Conference 2024 last week as an example of tangible innovations that comes out of research partners and sectors looking for new solutions. With the healthcare sector facing a growing demand for manpower and resources, innovative technologies like Medbric are highly sought after to enhance efficiency. Addressing these needs aligns with the government’s recently unveiled digital strategy, which prioritizes the integration of advanced technology in healthcare to improve service delivery and meet future challenges.

The founders Jon Espen Ingvaldsen and Jorunn Thaulow first met less than a year ago. As an adjunct associate professor at NorwAI, NTNU, Jon Espen has played a key role in the development of NorLLM the new Norwegian generative language models. He is now the CTO of Medbric. 
CEO Jorunn Thaulow, a medical doctor and research fellow from the Department of General Practice at the University of Oslo, is the other key founder at Medbric. She conceived the idea of using AI to enhance the quality of healthcare services, inspired by her own research findings.

Following their work on various research proposals earlier this spring, they began developing prototypes for solutions tailored to GP offices. 

-    Yes, the process has moved quickly, but we ensured a thorough four month testing period”, says Jon Espen Ingvaldsen  
-    Between 50 and 150 doctors have tested the prototype in their daily work with highly positive results. The word is spreading fast, now we have several hundred doctors on our waitinglist wanting to try out our solution.

There is a race on for innovations in the health sector, and there are other players offering similar solutions. However, Medbric is bringing state-of-the art technology and unique qualities from machine learning techniques, setting new standards and pushing boundaries of what is possible in medical practice.  

 2024-09-30