How does Akoua handle garbled medication names?

Drug names survive dictation badly, so Akoua recovers them against an Australian PBS/AMH drug vocabulary — the only medication vocabulary it has today, so a UK or NZ clinician is working against Australian drug names — and does it in the open. Every correction is shown, every correction is revertible, and the recovery is structurally unable to introduce a drug that wasn’t spoken.

What a recovery looks like

Recoveries appear as visible corrections against what was heard:

• “a torva statin” becomes atorvastatin 40 mg, marked as recovered, with a revert control.
• “candy sartan” becomes candesartan 16 mg, the same way.
• “Lipitor” becomes atorvastatin — brand names normalise to generics, as you’d write them.

Nothing is hidden behind the tidy version. You can see what was heard, see what it was resolved to, and put it back if the resolution is wrong.

Why it can’t invent a drug

The reconciliation is deterministic and paired with a capture guard, so a recovery can only ever be applied to something that was actually spoken. It is not a model filling a plausible gap. A drug-free consult stays drug-free.

That matters more than accuracy on the names it does recover: a wrong drug you can see and revert is a correction, and a drug that was never mentioned is a fabrication.

What still needs your eye

Left and right, doses and critical values get an extra advisory check before you sign — surfaced for your eye, never auto-corrected. Akoua makes no clinical inferences: it does not judge whether a medication or dose is appropriate, only whether it matches what was said. The medication list in a confirmed note is yours, and nothing is finalised until you confirm it.

The rest of the honesty system is described on the product page.