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Chandu Wickramarachchi joins the Healthcare Today Podcast to discuss ambient AI and redesigning how hospitals work.
In this week’s Healthcare Today Podcast, we’re joined by Dr Chandu Wickramarachchi, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Chief Clinical Information Officer at Epro.
Chandu has been at the centre of some large ambient voice technology deployments in the NHS, spanning hospitals across the country.
During a recent pilot, average clinic letter turnaround times fell from more than two weeks to just a few minutes, with one consultant reporting that letters were reaching the GP before the patient had even left the clinic.
But for Chandu, this is about far more than faster documentation, it’s about what happens when ambient AI supports the whole patient journey, and what that means for how hospitals are designed to work…
