Augmented Healthcare offers Praxis, an AI‑driven platform that lets medical students, junior doctors, and educators practice clinical communication with virtual patients that respond in real time. The system provides detailed, multi‑dimensional feedback on communication style, clinical accuracy, and ethical considerations, plus analytics to track progress, all available 24/7 on any device.
Funding
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Problem
Medical communication training often relies on limited human actors, scheduled sessions, and inconsistent feedback, making it difficult for students and junior doctors to practice regularly and receive objective assessments. This hampers skill development, especially in handling complex or high‑risk patient interactions.
Solution
Augmented Healthcare offers Praxis, an AI‑driven platform that provides virtual patients capable of real‑time, unscripted conversations. Learners interact via microphone, receiving authentic responses that adapt to their communication style. After each session, the system delivers multi‑dimensional feedback covering communication techniques, clinical accuracy, and ethical considerations, including automatic red‑flag detection for patient safety concerns. Praxis tracks performance over time, allowing users to monitor progress and identify areas for improvement. The platform is accessible 24/7 from any device, eliminating scheduling constraints and the need for human actors while ensuring a risk‑free learning environment.
Target Audience
Praxis is designed for medical students, junior doctors, and clinical educators, as well as training programs and medical schools seeking scalable, objective communication skills training.
Features
- Real‑time conversational AI with unscripted, context‑aware virtual patient responses
- Comprehensive, multi‑dimensional feedback on communication, clinical content, and ethics
- Automatic red‑flag detection to highlight patient safety issues during simulations
- Progress analytics dashboard that records scores and visualizes skill development over time
- 24/7 availability on any device with no scheduling or human actor requirements
- Custom speech‑to‑text and text‑to‑speech pipeline optimized for clinical language
- WCAG 2.1 AA compliance for accessibility, including keyboard navigation and screen‑reader support