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Beyond the Note
The note is the reason most providers start with Abridge. Everything on this page comes with it: a clinical assistant that cites its sources, evidence linked back to the conversation, a summary written for the patient, and dictation inside your Abridge notes.
Abridge AI
Ask clinical questions before, during, or after the visit and get answers that cite UpToDate primary sources; click View Sources to read them. Suggested prompts update as the conversation goes. You can also edit your draft in plain language; that part lives on Make It Write Like You.
Clinical decision support does not replace clinical judgment. You remain responsible for reviewing and verifying anything you use.
Open the Continuing Medical Education section from the Abridge menu and complete the learner profile. Then use Abridge AI as part of normal practice, and return there for your attestations and your transcript.
Linked Evidence
Linked Evidence ties every line of the draft back to the recording. Highlight a word, a phrase, or a paragraph in the draft and Abridge shows you where in the conversation it came from. The full transcript is in the Abridge tab, and you can search it.
Trust, then verify, before you sign.
Level of service suggestion
Below your Assessment and Plan in the Abridge tab, Abridge suggests a level of service based on the visit. It is a suggestion. Review it against your own documentation before you use it.
Patient Visit Summary
Every note includes a patient friendly summary written at an 8th grade reading level, in its own tab next to the note. Pull it into Patient Instructions with the .ambientptinstructions SmartPhrase.
Concise gives a bulleted list of the diagnoses discussed. Comprehensive adds a brief visit summary and an instructions section. You set this in Note Settings.
Visit Diagnoses
From the Abridge tab, pull the diagnoses discussed during the visit into the diagnosis section of the encounter.
Orders from the conversation
For outpatient visits, medications, labs, imaging, and referrals you say out loud are queued in the encounter for your review and signature, in Heard in Visit Recording. HIVR is available for outpatient visits only at this time and is coming to the ED and hospital later. Until then, in the ED and the hospital, place orders as you normally do. See ED and Hospital.
Dictation with Abridge
You can dictate into your note or any editable Epic field. Choose Dictate, or press Ctrl+period to start and stop, place the cursor, and speak. Move the cursor to dictate somewhere else.
Your phone as a wireless microphone
Open the Dictate dropdown, choose Abridge app, scan the QR code, and enter the six-digit code.
Commands and punctuation
- Next Field, Anchor Speech, and Scratch That.
- Punctuation is what you say, unless you turn on Auto Punctuation.
- Voice Shortcuts, in the Dictation dropdown, insert phrases you use often.
- Stop dictation when you are not speaking.
Dragon Medical One remains Freeman's dictation tool. Abridge dictation is an option inside Abridge notes. See the Dragon Setup Course.
Languages
28 and counting, including visits with an interpreter. The transcript shows the languages spoken, and the note is written in English.
Rate the note
Use the feedback control on any note to tell Abridge what was wrong, or right. It improves the drafts.
More on Abridge
Verify the diagnoses Abridge heard and sign your orders. Clinic visits only.
Verify and sign →Ten minutes of settings, and every future note reads the way you write.
Set your preferences →Trackboard, note types, pulling a prior note forward, and habits by setting.
See your setting →