Lifecare Smart Notes at South Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county
Lifecare Smart Notes used for AI-assisted dictation turning spoken language into structured documentation in the Lifecare record, piloted in social care and extended to healthcare professionals.
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- Clinical problem
- Support communication
- Point of care
- At the bedside
- Nature of AI output
- A recommendation
- Clinical specialty
- Other
- Care setting
- Community care
- Patient population
- Not specified in source (EHR-vendor harvest)
- Intended use
- Lifecare Smart Notes used for AI-assisted dictation turning spoken language into structured documentation in the Lifecare record, piloted in social care and extended to healthcare professionals.
Full study description
EHR-embedded AI (Tier C5). Tietoevry reports a staged pilot at the South Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county from autumn 2024, with a third phase in September 2025 integrating AI-assisted documentation into Lifecare EHR Healthcare. Tietoevry quotes "AI-assisted dictation halved documentation time", "More than 65% of respondents said the solution had reduced documentation delays", and a separate Southwest Finland assessment that "AI can reduce the time spent on nursing documentation by up to 40%" — vendor-reported pilot findings, quoted only, never structured metrics. Documentation AI in a NON-HOSPITAL provider (wellbeing services county — org type provider). Underlying speech/language processing runs on Microsoft Azure. Not independently verified.
- AI technique
- NLP / large language model
- Input data
- Clinical notes / free text
- Output type
- Recommendation
- Autonomy level
- Informs a human (advisory)
- Model provenance
- Vendor proprietary
- Status
- Pilot
- Country
- Finland
- Deployment date
- 1 September 2024
- Data identifiability
- Not stated in the source
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AIContributors
- Deploying organisation
- South Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county · provider · Finland
- AI vendor
- Tietoevry · Finland
- Product name
- Lifecare Smart Notes
- Source record
- tieto.com · ehr-tietoevry-smartnotes-ostrobothnia