It is the culmination of an experiment. For six months, the medical, surgical, obstetric and paramedical services of Arles Hospital have been supported by an unusual tool. Called Nabla, this assistant integrating artificial intelligence (AI) intends to revolutionize the management of consultations. Easier writing of reports, improvement in the quality of life at work, reduction in the perceived distance between the caregiver and their patient… The system, with promising results, has just been adopted by the hospital center, a member of the Hospitals de Provence, through a partnership placed under the sign of innovation.
Reduce the mental and administrative burden of caregivers
If this collaboration is part of an overall modernization project for the establishment, including the construction of a consultation center shared with private doctors, it makes it possible, among other things, to lighten the mental load and administration of caregivers. In fact, the tool, integrated into the computerized patient file (DPI), records conversations between the doctor and the patient, and transcribes the exchange before generating a summary. The doctor will then simply reread the document, adding potential adjustments.
“In orthopedics, we have a lot of consultations that follow one another, indicates Dr Belal, orthopedic surgeon and vice-president of the Establishment Medical Commission. Speech recognition was already an asset, but with automated synthesis, we have taken a new step. My administrative assistants can now focus on higher value-added tasks.”
More than 120,000 consultations recorded each year
With more than 120,000 consultations recorded each year by the Arles Hospital Center, Nabla thus represents “enormous potential to improve the efficiency of our medical information management”, estimates Dr Ghouila, ENT surgeon and head of department, president of the Patient File Committee, particularly attentive to the innovations taken up by the hospital. In total, more than 55 medical and paramedical specialties are already integrated into the platform, allowing all caregivers to benefit from this technology. For Dr Kerkeni, head of the gynecology-obstetrics department, artificial intelligence “could help us detach ourselves from the computer. Nabla limits the administrative burden and allows us to focus our attention on our patients.”
The Arles Hospital Center is the first French public establishment to deploy the Nabla assistant, integrated into a Computerized Patient File and available to all of its healthcare teams. The partnership, which benefits from the support of the PACA Regional Health Agency (ARS), is intended to support the development of the number of medical consultations at the Arles Hospital and promises an explosion in use in the months to come.
Nabla is an intelligent medical assistant designed to free caregivers from administrative burden and allow them to focus on what matters most: patient care. Thanks to proprietary AI models optimized for the medical field, Nabla offers fluid transcription of clinical exchanges and automatically generates consultation summaries.
Co-founded by Alexandre Lebrun (CEO), Delphine Groll (COO) and Martin Raison (CTO), Nabla benefits from the support of prestigious advisors such as Yann LeCun (VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta) and Tony Fadell (inventor of the iPod). With total funding of 49 million euros, Nabla has established itself as a key player in medical AI.
