ITEA Call 2022 · Smart Health

Automated medical reporting that gives time back to care.

MediSpeech is an international research & innovation project building an open, AI-powered ecosystem that turns the clinical conversation into structured, interoperable medical records.

4Countries
19Partners
4Clinical use cases
42Months
30%

Up to a third of a clinician's working hours are spent on administrative documentation — time taken away from patients and a leading driver of physician burnout. MediSpeech targets that burden at its source.

The solution

From spoken consultation to structured clinical data.

MediSpeech captures the doctor–patient conversation and transforms it, in real time, into accurate, standardised and interoperable clinical documentation — ready for the electronic health record and for downstream decision support.

Input

Speak

The consultation is captured through medical-grade automatic speech recognition, tuned for clinical language and multiple European languages.

Process

Understand

NLP extracts symptoms, diagnoses and plans, mapping them to MeSH, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, ICPC-2 and ICD-10.

Output

Report

Structured notes flow into the EHR over open, certified FHIR/OpenAPI interfaces, with explainable decision support.

01

AI-powered speech recognition

Medical-grade ASR that handles clinical terminology and the idiosyncrasies of individual speech, targeting a word error rate below 15% across multiple languages.

02

Data interoperability & harmonisation

Open, secure APIs over EHR standards (FHIR, OpenEHR), certified to ISO 27001 and NEN 7510, to move structured transcripts safely across heterogeneous systems.

03

Technology-advanced decision support

Explainable clinical decision support combining knowledge-based rules with reinforcement learning, keeping recommendations transparent and auditable for clinicians.

04

Automated medical reporting

Extracted entities and relations are assembled into structured, explainable medical notes and patient-journey artefacts — reducing admin time and improving completeness.

The consortium

Nineteen partners, four countries, one mission.

MediSpeech brings together clinical, technology, insurance and academic partners across the Netherlands, Portugal, Türkiye and the United Kingdom, coordinated by MEDrecord BV.

The NetherlandsCoordinator

Netherlands

National coordinator · MEDrecord BV (Jan-Marc Verlinden)
  • MEDrecord BV· project coordinator
  • HealthTalk.ai
  • Amsterdam UMC (AMC)
  • Radboud University
  • TNO
  • University of Twente
PortugalWP6 lead

Portugal

National coordinator · MTG Research & Development Lab (Tiago Taveira-Gomes)
  • MTG Research & Development Lab
  • MedicineOne
  • University of Porto, Faculty of Medicine
  • he-ufp· Fernando Pessoa University Hospital
TürkiyeLargest effort

Türkiye

National coordinator · Anadolu Sigorta (Mehmet Kıvılcım Keleş)
  • Anadolu Sigorta
  • SESTEK A.Ş.
  • Turkcell Teknoloji
  • Doğuş Bilgi İşlem ve Teknoloji Hizmetleri
  • Experteam
  • NP Istanbul Brain Hospital
United KingdomWP5 lead

United Kingdom

National coordinator · Chilton Computing Ltd (Erica Yang)
  • Chilton Computing Ltd
  • Bristol Heart Institute
  • Digital Health & Care Alliance (DHACA)
Clinical use cases

Validated where it matters most.

Each national consortium develops and demonstrates MediSpeech in a real clinical setting, proving the technology against the languages, workflows and standards of its healthcare system.

Netherlands

Primary & specialist care documentation

Converting Dutch consultations into structured, OpenEHR-compliant records, delivering semantic interoperability to Dutch healthcare institutes through open, certified APIs.

OpenEHRInteroperabilityEHR
Portugal

Primary care follow-up

Four primary-care areas — type 2 diabetes, hypertension, child & adolescent health and low-risk pregnancy — with bilingual Portuguese/English processing and automatic coding into ICPC-2, ICD-10, LOINC and SNOMED-CT.

DiabetesHypertensionMaternal health
Türkiye

Neurodevelopmental care

Supporting diagnosis and management of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit, with a speech-to-text intake and a smart engine for NLU and clinical decision support across on-site, online and telehealth channels.

ASDCDSSTelehealth
United Kingdom

Atrial fibrillation risk

Identifying and extracting atrial fibrillation risk factors from free-text cardiac notes — drawing on ~200K patient records — for earlier diagnosis and targeted treatment after cardiac surgery.

CardiologyKnowledge graphNER
Work plan

Six work packages across 42 months.

From January 2025 to June 2028, the consortium delivers MediSpeech through six interlocking work packages, each led by a partner with deep expertise in its field.

Work packageJan 2025 ———————————————————— Jun 2028
WP1 · Management & coordinationMEDrecord BV (NL)
Jan 2025 – Jun 2028
WP2 · Use cases & requirementsTürkiye consortium
2025
WP3 · AI speech processingSpeech & language partners
2025 – 2027
WP4 · Advanced text analyticsAI & clinical partners
2025 – 2027
WP5 · Integration & demonstrationChilton Computing (UK)
2026 – 2028
WP6 · Dissemination & exploitationMTG R&D Lab (PT)
Jan 2025 – Jun 2028
MAR 2025

Consortium agreement

Governance and IP framework established.

AUG 2025

Privacy guidelines

Data protection guidelines across all four countries.

DEC 2025

Requirements set

Use cases, specifications and data protocols defined.

DEC 2026

ASR & EHR APIs

First speech and interoperability APIs delivered.

JUN 2027

AI models

Information-extraction and decision-support models.

OCT 2027

National demonstrators

One clinical demonstrator per country.

DEC 2027

Demonstration catalogue

Public catalogue of MediSpeech services.

JUN 2028

Final evaluation

Usability, exploitation and project close-out.

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Project Coordinator
MEDrecord BVJan-Marc Verlinden · the Netherlands
Programme
ITEA Call 2022 · Project № 22032Roadmap challenge: Smart Health
Duration
January 2025 – June 202842 months
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