MD.Inc Emergency Physicians
Emergency medicine group, Cape Town, South Africa
- Size
- 25 clinicians across 3 emergency centres
- Where
- South Africa
The job
Emergency doctors in the group used Heidi in a 90 day pilot with 25 clinicians to write notes while they work and not from memory after the shift.
Tool: Heidi · More using Heidi
What happened
Notes finished in under five minutes rose from 17% to 70% of all notes.
Seven in ten clinicians now finish their notes during the shift. Heidi produced 17,937 notes and documents from 1,102 hours of captured consultations. Clinician satisfaction with documentation rose from 2.9 to 4.3 out of 5. The three centres see close to 4,500 patients a month.
Before you believe it
Heidi wrote the story, so it is a vendor story. It was a pilot of 25 clinicians. The three centres are in Life hospitals, so the group is small while the host sites are not. The page does not say how the five minute timing was measured.
Try this prompt
Test the job on your own material before buying anything. Replace the highlighted brackets.
Here is a transcript of an emergency consultation: [TRANSCRIPT]. Write the note with presenting complaint, history, examination, investigations, diagnosis and plan. Flag anything not stated that a colleague would need to take over the case.
Source
Heidi ↗, 2 September 2026 · vendor story
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