AI is just another tool we can use to help patients, says Dr Dominic Pimenta

Dr Dominic Pimenta | Credit: Tortus

By Erin Dean

The co-founder and CEO of Tortus, the company that produced an AI scribe now used widely across NHS trusts, spoke with Doctors.net.uk about the privilege of being a doctor – and the role of tech in reducing human error.

Dr Dominic Pimenta worked in the NHS for two decades before becoming part of the AI revolution with a mission to free up doctors to spend more time on patient care.

Pimenta was a cardiologist nearing the end of training when he moved to work in intensive care units during the pandemic. Leaving the NHS, he then went to work in the pharmaceutical industry.

Alongside his clinical work he was always fascinated by technology, and with the rise of AI started to become frustrated by what he saw as a lag between academic research into these tools and the application of those insights in real world healthcare settings.

The NHS has always struggled with adopting tech – and now tech moves at a lightning pace