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Clinical
Documentation

Surgical reports, progress notes, nursing records – AI-assisted, structured, instantly searchable. Clinicians and nurses document faster and more completely.

Why Clinical Documentation Is a Lever

Clinicians spend 3 hours a day on documentation. Not with patients.

Clinical documentation is not a side task. It is a legal requirement, the foundation for coding, quality assurance and continuity of care. 

But it devours time: studies show that clinicians spend 30-40% of their working time on documentation. On a 10-hour day, that is 3-4 hours. For nursing staff, it is similar.

In practice: dictate the surgical report, wait for transcription, correct, sign. Type up progress notes on screen, often after the shift has ended. Nursing assessment, nursing report, handover form. Each document created individually, often redundant, rarely structured.

And the result? Documentation that is barely usable. Free-text reports that cannot be searched. Information spread across 15 different locations in the patient record. At transfer or discharge, nobody can quickly find what is relevant.

How the Process Changes

Before / After

⏱ Before — 3h Documentation/Day
Dictate surgical report
After surgery, from memory
⏱ 15–25 min per report
Wait for transcription
Typing pool, 1–3 days
🔄 Delay
Type progress notes
On screen, often after shift
⏱ 30–60 min/day
Nursing documentation manual
Assessment, report, handover
⏱ 45–90 min/shift
Redundant entries
Same information in 3 documents
❌ Copy-paste errors
Information not findable
Free text, unstructured, scattered
📊 Clinical risk
⚡ After — 1.5h Documentation/Day
Surgical report AI-generated
From theatre record, findings, standards
⚡ 5 min review instead of 25 min dictation
Immediately available
No typing pool, no waiting
✅ Same day
Progress notes assisted
AI suggests based on data
⚡ 15 min instead of 45 min
Nursing documentation structured
Templates + AI supplementation
✅ Faster and more complete
Capture once, use everywhere
Structured, no redundancy
✅ Consistent
Instantly searchable
All information structured in HIS
📊 Faster clinical decisions
3 hours/day 1.5 hours

Documentation time per clinician per day

1.5h (after) 3h (before)
The Solution in Detail

How We Automate Clinical Documentation

01

AI-Generated Surgical & Procedure Reports

From the theatre record, anaesthetic documentation, findings and standard text blocks, the AI generates a complete surgical report. The surgeon reviews and supplements, rather than dictating from scratch.

Template-based, configurable per procedure and department. Automatic inclusion of times, materials and findings from the theatre record. Immediately available in the HIS, no typing pool required.

02

Assisted Progress & Nursing Documentation

AI suggests entries based on vital signs, medication, lab results and previous findings. The clinician or nurse supplements and confirms. Structured templates for common scenarios: faster than free text and more complete.

🟢 Standard progress – AI suggestion, one-click confirmation
🟠 Deviation – Flagged, individual supplementation
🔴 Critical finding – Alert, immediate documentation

03

Structured Filing & Searchability

All documents are filed in the HIS in a structured manner: by type, date, department, diagnosis. Full-text search across all clinical documents. At transfer or discharge: relevant information at the touch of a button.

Automatic classification and tagging. Linking to ICD/procedure codes. Patient timeline with all documents chronologically. Quick access to relevant previous findings at admission.

04

Documentation Dashboard & Quality Control

Overview: documentation completeness per patient, ward, department. Warning on missing documentation (surgical report >24h, missing nursing assessment). KPIs for quality management.

Power BI dashboard. KPIs: documentation completeness, surgical report turnaround, missing mandatory documents, discharge letter completion time. QM reports.

UiPath
KIS (SAP IS-H, Orbis, iMedOne)
Azure AI (klinisches NLP)
ICD-10-GM / OPS Katalog
ABBYY
Power BI
Results

What Documentation Automation Typically Delivers

−50%

Less documentation
time

+35%

More complete
documentation

0

Surgical reports
>24h overdue

+1,5h

More time per
clinician per day

The greatest lever is the chain effect: better documentation leads to better coding, which leads to more revenue and fewer payer audit clawbacks. Documentation is not a cost factor, it is a revenue lever.

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