Notable launches wearable, voice-powered assistant for doctors

Wearables aren't just for tracking steps anymore, as a new tool is helping doctors transcribe right from their smartwatch. This morning, voice-powered healthcare company Notable unveiled its latest technology, a voice-powered artificial intelligence wearable for doctors. "The current physician workflow is rife with administrative burdens and complexity. With growing documentation requirements, studies have shown that physicians spend more than half of their day in EHRs and a third of their day with patients," Pranay Kapadia, Notable CEO, said in an email to MobiHealthNews. "With Notable, physicians free up their day to offer better patient care. During appointments, they can be better listeners and more effective educators by maintaining eye contact with patients. Since Notable is passively capturing and charting for them in the background, there's no need to type or take notes during patient time. Between appointments, their charting workflow is dramatically simplified and sped up. After a brief dictation, they just need to review programmatically generated notes, codes, and orders -- then can move on to the next patient."