HelloAI glossary

Ambient AI scribe

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AI that listens to a clinical encounter and drafts the documentation automatically, cutting the time a clinician spends writing notes.

In the clinic

After a video visit for a cough, a family physician signs the scribe's draft note at the end of a long session. Its exam section says the lungs were clear on auscultation, although nobody could listen to the chest over video. Once signed, that line is her documentation, and the next clinician will read it as an examination that happened. Check the exam and plan sections against what actually happened before signing, and during the pilot ask how often clinicians edit those sections at all, since a near-zero edit rate needs explaining.

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