Dictate the consultation once.
Get the operation note, the clinic letter, and the letter to the GP.
One dictation becomes every document that consultation needs — each one editable, all of them from the same transcript.
One transcript. As many documents as you need.
Most dictation tools hand back a block of text and leave the formatting to you. Hemi keeps the transcript as the source and formats from it as many times as you ask — the operation note now, the GP letter this afternoon, the discharge summary when the bed is needed.
One click turns the transcript into a structured clinic letter, operation note or referral. Need more than one document from the same consultation? Add another template and it opens as a new tab. The transcript is not consumed and not rewritten. Edit one document without touching the others.
It tells you what you didn't say.
A tool that quietly invents a plausible sentence is worse than one that fails loudly, because you will sign the plausible one.
Hemi marks the gaps. Never mentioned the anaesthetic? The operation note says NOT DICTATED where the anaesthetic goes — it does not reach for the likeliest answer. Dictate a clinic follow-up into an operation-note template and it says so before you export. Phrases the speech engine was not confident about are collected in a review panel rather than folded silently into the text.
The rule is that quality problems arrive as errors, not as prose.
Twenty-two templates, written for New Zealand practice
Grouped the way a day is.
Ward work
- Ward round
- Ward round (short)
- SBAR handover
- Family meeting
- MDT summary
- Progress note
Clinic
- Consultation
- Clinic letter
- Letter to the GP
- Medication review
Admissions & procedures
- Admission summary
- Discharge summary
- Operation note
- Post-procedure note
- Consent note
Referrals
- Referral letter
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech-language therapy
- Dietitian
ACC & certificates
- ACC referral
- ACC review
- Death certificate
The rest of it
Your abbreviations, expanded as you speak
Say "RWR", get "registrar ward round". You define them, and expansion applies to new speech only — so it never rewrites something you typed by hand.
Pause without losing the thread
Interrupted mid-consultation? Pause, deal with it, resume. Everything across the session accumulates into one transcript, and the timer counts recording time rather than wall-clock.
A worklist that matches the day
Priority — routine, urgent, STAT — and review status. Search runs over the records already on your machine.
Web-based, nothing to install
Works on the ward computer and your consulting-room laptop. No installation, no updates, nothing to maintain. Phone and tablet layouts are not optimised yet.
Export
Word (.docx), or print to PDF straight from the browser.
English or Spanish
Interface and dictation both. Formatted documents are currently English in either language — clinical Spanish terminology is awaiting review by a Panamanian clinician, and guessing at it would be the wrong kind of shortcut.
Where your data goes — plainly, because you'll ask.
- Your audio is transcribed by your browser's Web Speech API — in Chrome, that is Google's speech recognition service. Your voice goes to Google, not to Hemi's server, and not on your device.
- No audio is retained. It is transcribed and discarded; the transcript is what is kept.
- Transcripts go to Anthropic's API when you ask for a document. Nothing is sent before that.
- Patient identifiers and clinical text are encrypted field by field in the database — name, NHI and note each encrypted separately.
- You see only your own records, enforced by the database itself rather than by application code.
Where Hemi is right now
A working prototype, built by a practising clinician, running on test data. No real patient record has been entered.
Before it holds real records it needs audit logging, rate limiting on sign-in, and a signed data-processing agreement with Anthropic. Those are written down in the repository, not promised on a roadmap.
It is in early access, opening a founding pilot with specialists in New Zealand and Panama. Early access means a conversation about what you would need it to do — not a trial account.
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