Helping Your Clinician Focus on You
Ambient Documentation: A new tool that helps your doctor listen more closely to you during a visit and make sure important details are captured correctly.
What is Ambient Documentation?
During your visit, your clinician may use Ambient Documentation, a secure tool that helps create notes from your conversation.
- Your clinician will get your permission before using Ambient Documentation
- Your clinician will review the draft, make edits if needed, and approve the final version for your medical record
Why is Ambient Documentation used?
Ambient Documentation helps your clinician stay more present with you during your visit.
- Spend less time typing and more time connecting with you
- Allows your clinician to focus on talking and listening to you
- Helps make sure important details are captured correctly
- Supports more detailed visit notes
Is My Information Private?
Yes. Ambient Documentation follows HIPAA privacy rules.
- Only your clinician can access it
- No information is stored on your clinician’s device
- Your information is stored securely for 30 days on an encrypted server that is used to store your medical record and then deleted.
Questions?
Please ask your clinician before the visit starts.
You may also ask the care team to connect you with the appropriate department if you have privacy, documentation, or patient experience concerns.