Ambient Clinical Documentation
Also known as: AI Medical Scribe, Ambient AI Scribe
AI technology that listens to a patient-clinician conversation and drafts a clinical note for physician review.
Ambient clinical documentation refers to AI software that listens to (or transcribes) a conversation between a clinician and patient during a visit, then drafts a structured clinical note for the physician to review, edit, and sign inside the EHR.
The AI drafts the note; it does not finalize or submit it. The clinician remains responsible for reviewing accuracy and signing off, which is why implementation guides emphasize review workflows rather than treating the draft as a finished document.