MobiHealth News February 9, 2021
Saykara’s founder and team will be augmenting Nuance’s R&D division.
Nuance Communications, the Boston-based maker of various conversational artificial intelligence tools for healthcare, announced yesterday that it has acquired Saykara, a Seattle startup that specializes in mobile AI clinical documentation. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Saykara’s lead product is an AI assistant built named Kara. During an in-person or virtual visit, doctors can use Kara to listen in real time and create clinical notes, fill orders or queue up a patient referral. The iOS tool can integrate with several major EHR systems, and uses a human reviewer to double-check any information that is being added to the patient’s EHR.
Saykara was founded in 2015 by Harjinder Sandhu,...