AI Medical Record "medimo" Implemented at St. Marianna University School of Medicine Hospital in Largest-Ever Deal for 200 Physicians

Medical AI startup medimo Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yo Nakahara) has announced that its AI-powered medical record creation support service, "medimo," has been implemented at St. Marianna University School of Medicine Hospital (Kawasaki, Kanagawa; Hospital Director: Taketo Otsubo).

This implementation aims to establish a system for a total of 200 physicians across the hospital, marking the largest scale of adoption for "medimo" at a single facility. The collaboration was born from a shared vision between medimo's mission to be "an inflection point in medicine" and the university hospital's goal of pioneering the next generation of medical environments. Through this system, both parties will challenge themselves to significantly reduce the workload of healthcare professionals and realize sustainable, patient-centered care.

In recent years, medical care has become more complex due to advancing technologies and an aging population. In outpatient care, physicians must perform numerous tasks within a limited time, including explaining conditions to patients, answering questions, obtaining consent, and creating medical records. Post-consultation documentation and organizing explanatory content, in particular, pose a significant temporal and mental burden on doctors. At the same time, providing thorough explanations to patients and accurately recording that content are crucial elements supporting the quality and safety of medical care.

To address these challenges, medimo Inc. developed "medimo," a service that utilizes voice recognition and generative AI. St. Marianna University School of Medicine Hospital formally adopted the service after evaluating the company's commitment to solving practical issues and the product's utility.

"medimo" is a clinical documentation support service that transcribes conversations during consultations via voice recognition and uses generative AI to create draft medical records and summaries. It supports documentation tasks such as creating SOAP-format chart drafts for outpatient care, informed consent records, and summarizing clinical content. At the hospital, "medimo" will be used on dedicated hospital smartphones. The generated summaries can be sent to the electronic health record system via the dedicated relay function, "SmartPaste." The service will be operated in compliance with the hospital's internal rules, with full consideration for personal information protection and information security.

Expected benefits include reduced time spent on post-consultation chart entry and documentation, improved accuracy in recording explanations to patients and the consent process, prevention of documentation errors, and leveraging records for improving outpatient care processes.

Going forward, the initial operational status in the Department of Gastroenterology will be reviewed with the hospital to assess reductions in documentation time, the quality of records, and alleviation of physician workload. Based on these results, they will explore tailored applications for other departments and aim to expand its use across multiple professions and fields, including rehabilitation, radiology, and emergency medicine.

Rentaro Nomura, Co-founder and Advisor at medimo Inc. and a 6th-year student at St. Marianna University, commented, "I am honored that my alma mater has adopted 'medimo.' We aim to contribute to reducing the documentation burden on physicians." Professor Tadateru Maehata of the hospital's Gastroenterology department added, "This is effective for reducing the burden of chart entry and preventing omissions. We will expand its application to other professions to enhance overall hospital efficiency and team-based care."