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Playback Health
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Product Description:

Heidi adapts to each provider's voice, terminology, and clinical preferences to create notes that sound like they wrote them. We understand context, adapt to the provider'[s specialty, and work seamlessly across every EHR without forcing providers into rigid system-specific workflows.

While competitors build for EHR fields, we build for clinical workflows. Heidi streamlines every part of a provider's work from pre-visit prep to post-visit tasks. One conversation generates everything: notes, referrals, documentation, and follow-up tasks.

That's why we're in the room for nearly 2 million patient visits each week and seeing 60-80% adoption rates. When providers use a tool everyday instead of avoiding it, you get real transformation that reduces burnout and keeps healthcare professionals practicing.

About Heidi:

Heidi’s ambient AI care partnerstreamlines time-intensive administrative tasks to reduce the cognitive load on clinicians. Serving nearly two million patient interactions a week, Heidi's technology transcribes and processes conversations between clinicians and patients to produce clinical notes and follow-up materials – from referral letters to assessments. The tool allows clinicians to work more efficiently and focus more on patient care – reducing the risk of burnout.

Heidi adheres to international standards including the NHS, HIPAA, GDPR, and Australian Privacy Principles, and has obtained enterprise-grade security certifications such as SOC2 and ISO27001. The company does not store session recordings, and never shares or sells clinical data.

Founded in 2019 by a team of medical professionals, Heidi has raised a total of USD $96.6 million to date, with backing from leading global investors. Today, Heidi powers nearly two million patient interactions every week, helping clinicians worldwide reduce administrative burden and focus on delivering high-quality care. Learn more at https://www.heidihealth.com.

Product Description:

Producing documentation for billing, QA, patients, and care communication is a significant burden on clinicians, requiring hours away from patient care and negatively impacting patient experience and outcomes. 

Playback Health’s mission is to alleviate this burden through advanced AI technology. As the leading care-forward, cost-effective AI medical scribe and patient engagement platform, Playback is designed by clinicians for clinicians. Its unified communication suite empowers healthcare professionals to focus more on patient care and reclaim quality time in their lives. Playback ambient listening and AI features capture provider conversations and seamlessly generate notes, orders, assessments, and other essential documentation, saving hours every day. Clinicians can effortlessly share vital care information with patients and families, significantly reducing communication burdens and enhancing the patient experience. 

Playback Health allows clinical care teams to be more connected and engaged in their patients' care journey, while helping patients and families better understand their care.

About Playback Health:

Playback Health is an AI-powered clinical platform that connects providers, patients, and their families at the point of care, facilitates communication and knowledge sharing, and gives providers more time to care. The platform leverages AI to record any audio and transforms it into EMR-ready clinical notes. 

Our mission is to make the care experience simpler, more effective, and more efficient by connecting clinicians, patients, and patients' families to the point of care. It is a platform for hospitals, clinics, and private providers that improves health outcomes and saves time through AI and automation, making communication and sharing easy between providers, patients, and their support systems. Playback Health is deeply integrated into EMR and health systems, supercharging patient experience and driving HCAHPS and star ratings up across all departments and specialties.

To learn more and get started with Playback Health for free, visit playbackhealth.com or connect with us: hello@playbackhealth.com

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Product Capabilities

Enables providers to capture comprehensive patient information and observations without disrupting consultations, creating a complete clinical picture that informs better treatment decisions when it matters most. Upload, search, and synthesize information to bring Heidi up to speed on everything known about the patient, including medications, notes, imaging and pathology reports, letters and care plans. Upload files (PDF, DOC, JPG, PNG) and handwritten notes to provide more context and clinical information. Link multiple patient sessions within context to connect previous notes and care plans to your current consultation. Search for specific information using Ask Heidi without searching through the medical record. Synthesize information into structured clinical documentation or templates. Generate comprehensive notes from context alone, without a transcript.

Heidi AI scribe adapts to the provider's speciality and style. Documentation matches the provider's clinical voice with a dictionary of terms and snippets. Templates structure notes in the style developed over years of practice. Heidi works in difficult settings across 110+ languages, multiple languages, and multiple speakers, and it easily moves between devices and across environments from a computer to a phone or from surgery to the ED. Heidi also learns via its "learnings" capability, which captures stylistic edits into saved memory.

Heidi is designed to mimic the workflow and style of each provider. It is completely personalized to ensure it reflects the way they think and document. It adapts to them instead of forcing them into rigid structures dictated by EHRs, which is why Heidi sees adoption of 65% or more in just the first month of implementation. Heidi integrates with Epic, Cerner, Meditech, athenahealth, and other leading EHRs. SMART-on-FHIR endpoints and integrations mean new data objects or workflows can plug in without rewrites to stay flexible as interoperability standards evolve.

Protects patient information through enterprise-grade security controls and additional verification layers, meeting institutional security compliance standards while ensuring unauthorized access prevention. Maintains awareness of critical clinical activities and system events through organized alerts, ensuring important documentation deadlines and collaboration opportunities are never missed. Ensures regulatory adherence through automated retention scheduling and compliance monitoring, meeting jurisdictional requirements while maintaining audit trails and institutional policy compliance. Protects patient information through enterprise-grade security and local compliance measures, ensuring encrypted data handling with automatic de-identification while maintaining zero-tolerance access policies and full regulatory compliance. Built on ISO27001 and SOC 2 certified infrastructure with annual penetration testing and compliance auditing.

Heidi is used in over 50 countries and across more than 200 specialities in environments ranging from single physician practices to large health systems comprised of multiple hospitals and specialities, including highly complex areas like the ED. Eliminates manual data transfer between systems through bi-directional connectivity with EHR platforms, enabling automatic import of patient data and organized export of completed documentation.

Once live, Heidi guarantees 99 % uptime and 24/7 first-, second- and third-line support through in-product chat and a named escalation path. We run monthly usage and quality-assurance reviews, publish a quarterly Continuous Improvement Plan and push template or model updates without downtime.

Heidi tracks both quantitative and qualitative data. Provider surveys conducted during pilots, through organization-wide implementation and ongoing use gather well-defined KPIs, including: - Rate of adoption (number of providers using Heidi more than 25 times a week) - Time saved per visit - Time saved outside of patient visits - Accuracy of documentation - Notes and documents created each week - Languages used in notes - If providers feel more present with patients - If providers feel less stress and burnout - If providers feel higher job satisfaction The surveys also ask for open comments where provider can share other insights and details on their experience with Heidi.

Eliminates manual data transfer between systems through bi-directional connectivity with EHR platforms, enabling automatic import of patient data and organized export of completed documentation.

Protects patient information through enterprise-grade security controls and additional verification layers, meeting institutional security compliance standards while ensuring unauthorized access prevention. Maintains awareness of critical clinical activities and system events through organized alerts, ensuring important documentation deadlines and collaboration opportunities are never missed. Ensures regulatory adherence through automated retention scheduling and compliance monitoring, meeting jurisdictional requirements while maintaining audit trails and institutional policy compliance. Protects patient information through enterprise-grade security and local compliance measures, ensuring encrypted data handling with automatic de-identification while maintaining zero-tolerance access policies and full regulatory compliance. Built on ISO27001 and SOC 2 certified infrastructure with annual penetration testing and compliance auditing.

Heidi is globally one of the largest AI scribes, used in more than 2 million patient encounters every week. Our infrastructure is designed to scale and support continued growth without performance degradation. We operate on a cloud-native state-of-the-art architecture that ensures high availability, rapid load balancing, and secure data handling across geographies. This allows us to seamlessly support both individual practices and large enterprise health systems, scaling from pilot deployments to thousands of concurrent users with no disruption. Our systems are continuously monitored and stress-tested to maintain reliability, even under peak usage.

Use Cases

Description:

Heidi works in over 200 specialties across 50 countries and 110+ languages. It is the ambient AI solution that providers prefer because it can easily move between complex environments. In one large US health system it has been successfully adopted by over 70% of providers from specitlty clinics to the surgical centers to the ED. Those providers report it not only saves them time (on average 5 minutes pervisit and up to 2 hours a day) but has improved their work/life balance and reduced burnout (over 80%). For health systems, this ca translate to reduced FTEs and increased capacity.

Pediatric use cases:

Heidi is ideal for pediatrics because it enables providers to maintain eye contact and focus entirely on patient care while Heidi captures every detail reliably, even in challenging environments with multiple speakers and languages or background noise (i.e., crying baby).

Users:

Any clinical role from surgeons to APPs to nurses, physical therapists, MAs, etc. And it can support cross functional collaboration.

Description:

Playback Health Pro is funcational in several use cases that benefit from enhanced communications, automation, and AI scribing.

  • Clinical Documentation: By converting patient conversations, film reviews, and audio dictations into EMR-ready medical notes and after-visit summaries, Playback Health aids clinicians in reducing the administrative burden of note-taking.
  • Patient Engagement: The platform enhances the way patients receive and understand their care instructions by providing multimedia playback options (video, audio, and screen recordings). This ensures that patients can review their care instructions in a format that is easiest for them to comprehend, enhancing compliance and satisfaction.
  • Language Translation: Playback is able to record and transcrible in 15 different languages and simultaneously offer patient summeries in the patients language, while satisfying clinical documentation requirements in English.
  • Ambient Clinical Intelligence: Through its ambient listening and AI scribe functionality, Playback Health can passively capture and document clinical conversations during patient visits, which helps in creating accurate medical records without interrupting the patient-provider interaction.
  • Telehealth: During virtual visits, Playback can be used to record sessions and provide transcripts, making it easier for both patients and providers to revisit the discussed care instructions or medical advice.
  • Quality Assurance and Training: The ability to review recorded interactions can help healthcare facilities monitor and improve the quality of care delivered. It also serves as a valuable tool for training medical staff by demonstrating effective communication practices, and reduce medical malpractice liability.

These use cases highlight Playback Health's utility in streamlining communication, enhancing patient engagement, and reducing the administrative load on healthcare providers.

Pediatric use cases:

Playback effectively serves any clinical situation that requires patient education and engagement. Pediatrics benefits with Playback Health because medical information and care instructiions are memorialized and shared with all family members simultaneously, whereever they are and whenever its needed most---automaticately transcribed and translated to ensure healthcare literacy.

Playback Health Pro helps in recording instructions and care plans that parents or guardians can share and review multiple times, ensuring that children's care continues effectively at home.

Users:

Playback Health Pro can be highly effective across a range of healthcare users, enhancing communication and documentation efficiencies in various medical settings:

  • Primary Care: In primary care settings, Playback Health Pro helps in capturing comprehensive clinical discussions during patient visits, aiding in accurate record-keeping and improving follow-up care through better patient understanding and compliance.
  • Specialty Care: For specialties like cardiology, orthopedics, dermatology, and others, the platform can document detailed and often technical conversations, which are crucial for precise treatment plans and patient education about specific conditions.
  • Surgery and Pre-Operative Care: It can be used to record pre- and post-operative instructions and consents, providing patients with clear and repeatable access to crucial surgical care information and reducing anxiety and misunderstanding.
  • Pediatrics: In pediatrics, Playback Health Pro helps in recording instructions and care plans that parents or guardians can review multiple times, ensuring that children's care continues effectively at home.
  • Behavioral Health: For mental health and counseling services, the platform allows for the discreet and secure documentation of sensitive sessions, which can be reviewed by practitioners to monitor progress over time.
  • Chronic Disease Management: Playback Health Pro is particularly useful in managing chronic diseases, where ongoing education, adherence to treatment protocols, and regular updates are crucial for patient management
  • Geriatrics: For elderly patients who may have difficulty remembering complex medical instructions, the platform can offer caregivers and family members the ability to revisit discussions to ensure proper care.
  • Emergency Medicine: Although challenging due to the nature of care, it can help in documenting the acute management and stabilization of patients, which can be critical for legal and compliance reasons.
  • Telemedicine: As virtual care becomes more prevalent, Playback Health Pro facilitates the recording and sharing of telehealth sessions, making virtual visits as valuable as in-person consultations.
  • Multilingual Care Settings: In diverse linguistic environments, the platform can aid in overcoming language barriers by providing recorded content that can be easily translated or shared with interpreters.

These above areas of care benefit significantly from Playback Health Pro’s ability to capture and replay detailed medical interactions, which can improve understanding, compliance, and outcomes across the healthcare spectrum.

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, athena, eClinicalWorks, Athenahealth

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (native app), Mobile / Tablet (web optimized)

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, Patient portal, ADT, Credentialing, Website / public online sources, Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, Other, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Athenahealth, Azalea Health/Prognosis, CPSI, Evident, Healthland, MEDHOST, MedWorx, QuadraMed, Self-developed, Point Click Care

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (native app), Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Other

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Manual processes leave providers working nights and weekends while provider shortages reach crisis levels. More than half of providers say EHR documetation is the main cause of their burnout. They often spend several extra hours each day documenting. Many EHR-based scribe solutions and solutions designed to fit in the existing structure of the EHR don't improve those manual processes much. They are designed to fit into the EHR framework and become a note-writer bound into EHR systems, not built to improve clinical workflows. 

Heidi is designed for clinical workflow optimization. We eliminate the administrative waste that's driving 35% of providers to consider leaving healthcare. Unlike manual processes, we handle the complete workflow - not just notes, but referrals, follow-up tasks, and care coordination. That's why we're seeing 60-80% activation rates and the majority of physician users reporting reduced burnout.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

AI scribes built for specific specialties create silos, but healthcare doesn't work in silos. A patient's journey from primary care to cardiology to surgery requires seamless handoffs across specialties. Generic "ChatGPT wrapper" solutions create data silos that fragment care and increase administrative burden. We adapt to your voice, terminology, and clinical preferences across every specialty because we build for clinical workflows, not rigid system constraints.

Heidi is built to improve the clinical workflow by truly replacing work previously done by providers in a personalized way that reflects their style - streamlining every part of their work from pre-visit prep to post-visit tasks. It can easily move between specialties and different environments within a health system, support coordination across teams, and be accessed on any device.

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Playback employs advanced automation and AI to transform patient conversations, film reviews, and audio dictations into EMR-ready medical notes and after-visit summaries simultaneously. This not only saves clinicians time but also enhances the patient experience significantly.

Playback seamlessly integrates within your facility's EMR, offering ambient listening and AI scribe capabilities, complete with 1:1 editing and direct writeback functionality. Additionally, it facilitates effortless sharing of information through the patient portal.

For settings that require a non-integrated solution, Playback functions as a secure, standalone AI scribe. It retains the robust sharing capabilities of our EMR-embedded solution. A lightweight AI scribe application that can be set up and launched in less than five minutes, sitting atop any system of record for rapid deployment.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

Playback Health integrates video, audio, and screen recording into the communication process, ensuring that all stakeholders can access and share care information in a language they understand. By focusing on the doctor-patient conversation, Playback ensures that everyone involved can clearly hear and comprehend care instructions, regardless of time or location.

No other platform combines AI-scribe technology with seamless engagement and sharing like Playback Health. This unique approach reduces communication errors, saves clinicians valuable time, and enhances patient experience scores.

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