Hong KongHealthcare and life sciences2025 – ongoing

Hospital Authority (Tuen Mun Hospital)

Generative AI drafting of physiotherapy reports on the HA GenAI platform

Tuen Mun Hospital physiotherapists drafted reports in 12.7 minutes with AI against 33.3 minutes by hand in a small trial

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Problem

Physiotherapists at the outpatient department built reports by piecing together scattered clinical notes, which took time away from patients. Across public hospitals, medical report requests also faced long waits.

Approach

The Hospital Authority built a generative AI platform in-house. In February 2025 its chief executive announced trials of AI-drafted medical reports at six hospitals from March 2025, with doctors checking every report. The Tuen Mun physiotherapy team wrote its own prompt on the platform at no extra cost. In January 2026 ten physiotherapists were split into two groups of five, one working by hand and one with AI drafts, on the same case.

Results

12.72 min vs 33.29 minaverage time per report, AI-assisted group vs manual group (5 staff each, p < 0.001)Company's own claim[1]

7.8/10average staff confidence in the accuracy and quality of AI draftsCompany's own claim[1]

80% within 8 weeksHospital Authority target for completing medical report requestsCompany's own claim[2]

Takeaway

AI drafts shortened report writing in a department trial with five staff per group. The authority aims to finish 80% of report requests within eight weeks, but has not published results from its six-hospital trial.

Sources

AI-assisted Generation of Physiotherapy Medical Reports to Boost Work Efficiency in the Physiotherapy Outpatient Department (OPD) of Tuen Mun Hospital (TMH)
Hospital Authority Convention 2026 (abstract archive)2026Company publication
Hong Kong hospitals to trial generative AI for medical report writing
The Standard (Hong Kong)20 Feb 2025News article

Source summaries

[1]Hospital Authority Convention 2026 (abstract archive)2026

Four Tuen Mun Hospital physiotherapy staff reported on their prompt built on the HA GenAI platform and a January 2026 comparison of two groups of five. The AI group averaged 12.72 minutes per report against 33.29 minutes, and rated its confidence in the drafts at 7.8 out of 10.

[2]The Standard (Hong Kong)20 Feb 2025

The Standard reported Hospital Authority chief executive Tony Ko's announcement of a generative AI trial for medical reports at six public hospitals from March 2025. The system was developed in-house, doctors must check and sign every report, and the goal is to complete 80% of requests within eight weeks.

Full details are in the original sources.

Added 25 Oct 2026 · Updated 25 Oct 2026