Innovation Memo with Intron Health: Exploring their Speech-to-Text Technology

Intron Health is a HealthTech revolutionising healthcare documentation in Africa with its cutting-edge speech-to-text technology tailored for nearly 300 African accents. Intron Health recognises the challenges healthcare professionals face in digitising patient records, particularly in environments where doctors see a high volume of patients daily. Intron has developed a proprietary speech recognition platform integrated into its Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system which streamlines the manual data entry process and addresses the specific linguistic nuances in diverse African accents.

In today’s edition of our Innovation Memo, we profile Intron Health, with CEO & Co-Founder, Tobi Olatunji, MD.

Tobi is a physician who transitioned from clinical practice to focus on building applications to transform healthcare through thoughtful, context-driven engineering. Tobi has worked as a machine learning scientist at companies like Amazon Web Services and Enlitic, developing algorithms for clinical natural language processing tasks.