We aim to develop AI-assisted digital innovations in hand surgery, starting with clinician-reviewed structured documentation and improved clinical workflows. Our areas of interest include rehabilitation tracking, adherence to therapy, and prevention protocols. We also aim to create searchable, structured data that supports outcome comparisons and future research. We are seeking partners for development and clinical validation, and can contribute as an academic research facilitator by connecting clinical teams and supporting multicentre studies.
Ép Kezekért Egészségügyi Szolgáltató Kft. operates Kézklinika, a specialist hand and wrist clinic in Budapest founded and led by Judit Réka Hetthéssy, MD, PhD. The clinic provides an integrated pathway from specialist assessment and diagnosis through conservative treatment, surgical planning and rehabilitation. Its clinical team treats common and complex hand and wrist conditions in children and adults, including nerve compression syndromes, tendon disorders, Dupuytren disease, arthritis, injuries, tumours, congenital deformities and reconstructive cases.
Kézklinika combines patient care with clinical research, education and professional collaboration. Its founder has more than 15 years of hand-surgery experience, holds the European Hand Diploma, previously worked as a senior consultant and assistant professor at Semmelweis University, and co-chairs the Research Committee of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand. She is also a JHSE reviewer, JHS guest editor and PhD supervisor with experience guiding clinical research projects from concept to publication.
The company is developing Georgie, a specialty-trained ambient AI assistant for outpatient care. With patient consent, Georgie converts the clinician–patient conversation into a draft structured outpatient report for clinician review. Unlike generic transcription, the proposed system is built around validated specialty templates and captures history, examination, specific clinical tests and results, assessment, recommendations and follow-up. This reduces repetitive documentation, supports more attentive consultations and creates consistent, high-quality clinical data suitable for audit, outcomes research and future decision-support development.
Hand surgery is the first validation domain because its high-volume outpatient workflow combines recurring diagnoses with detailed, specialty-specific examination findings. The modular architecture is intended to scale to other subspecialties. Ép Kezekért Kft. can contribute clinical leadership, workflow design, domain ontologies, annotated examples, usability testing and real-world validation. We seek European partners in AI and multilingual NLP, privacy-preserving infrastructure, EHR integration and standards, cybersecurity, health economics, implementation science and multicentre clinical research.