{"slug":"university-hospital-freiburg-evaluates-open-llms-for-drafting-german-clinical-letters-with-a-tool-partly-in-routine-use-in-ophthalmology","url":"https://findausecase.com/use-cases/university-hospital-freiburg-evaluates-open-llms-for-drafting-german-clinical-letters-with-a-tool-partly-in-routine-use-in-ophthalmology","title":"University Hospital Freiburg evaluates open LLMs for drafting German clinical letters, with a tool partly in routine use in ophthalmology","description":"Researchers at Universitätsklinikum Freiburg compared four language models for generating German medical letters (Arztbriefe), using 90,000 real clinical documents from the ophthalmology clinic. A non-commercial model gave the best results, and 93.1% of the reports generated with BLOOM-CLP-German were suitable for clinical use after minor corrections. The press release says the AI software is already partly in routine use at the university hospital; the ophthalmology clinic uses an AI tool for writing letters.","company":"Universitätsklinikum Freiburg","industry":"Healthcare","country":"Germany","aiCapabilities":["Generative AI"],"technology":["BLOOM-CLP-German"],"deployment":"Unknown","problemStatement":"According to surveys cited in the press release, doctors spend almost three hours a day on documentation tasks, and automating medical documentation could free time for patients.","solutionApproach":"Researchers at Universitätsklinikum Freiburg compared four language models for generating German medical letters, using 90,000 real clinical documents from the ophthalmology clinic to train the models. Medical staff then rated the letters the models generated.","businessValue":"In the study, 93.1% of the documents generated with the BLOOM-CLP-German model were suitable for clinical use after minor corrections. The press release says the AI software is already partly in routine use at the hospital and that the ophthalmology clinic uses an AI tool for writing letters in routine operation; it describes time savings for doctors as a potential, not a measured result.","evidence":{"band":"high"},"sourceUrl":"https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/fachbeitrag/pm/studie-belegt-ki-sprachmodelle-schreiben-gute-arztbriefe/sendPdf/673653","dates":{"publishedAt":"2026-10-27T05:45:40.112Z","publishedAtSource":"pipeline","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T05:45:40.112Z"},"license":"Open for reading and citing with a link to https://findausecase.com/use-cases/university-hospital-freiburg-evaluates-open-llms-for-drafting-german-clinical-letters-with-a-tool-partly-in-routine-use-in-ophthalmology. Bulk republication requires permission."}