One system, one patient record
The note is drafted, reviewed, and signed inside the same chart that holds scheduling, e-prescribing, labs, and billing — no separate scribe app to sync.
Ambient Scribe
Ambient AI scribe for clinical notes
Ona's Ambient AI Scribe is an AI medical scribe that records a patient visit in the room or on a telehealth call — or from uploaded audio — then automatically drafts a structured clinical note against your template. It diarizes each speaker, times every turn, and hands you a review-ready draft to edit and sign.
- Record or upload audio
- Diarized transcript
- Template placeholders
- Edit before sign
The Ambient AI Scribe listens to a real consultation and turns it into a first-draft clinical note, so you document by exception instead of typing from scratch. It works for in-person visits, encrypted telehealth calls, and audio you upload after the fact. Every draft stays in a review state until you sign, so nothing enters the chart on its own.
It's built for solo and group practices carrying a heavy documentation load — primary care, behavioral health, women's health, functional and integrative medicine, nutrition, and physical therapy. If clinicians on your team spend more time writing notes than seeing patients, ambient charting automation hands those hours back.
01 · Why it matters
The note is a recording of a conversation you already had.
Re-typing a visit from memory is the slowest, least reliable part of the day. Ambient capture removes the reconstruction step entirely.
You zoom out of the conversation, reconstruct what was said, and translate it into clinical prose — usually hours later, usually after clinic. Every one of those steps is a chance to lose a detail or drift from what actually happened.
When the encounter is the source of truth, the reconstruction disappears. Ona keeps the conversation verbatim and does the structuring, so the note you sign is grounded in the visit — not in what you can remember of it three patients later.
02 · Why Ona
A scribe that listens, then drafts.
Clinician stays in control
Every AI draft opens in a review state and requires your signature, so nothing is charted without a human sign-off.
Private and encrypted
Recordings are encrypted in transit and at rest inside your dedicated tenant, playable only by users with chart access. Ona never trains models on your audio.
Works across languages
Transcribe a visit in one language and generate the note in another — consult in Spanish, chart in English.
Record live or upload after
Start a consent-first recording in the room or on a telehealth call, or upload an MP3, M4A, or WAV up to 100MB you captured elsewhere. Both routes land in the same place.
Multi-speaker diarization
Clinician and patient turns are separated and timestamped, so the transcript reads like the visit happened — interruptions, side-talk, and all.
03 · From mic to chart
How a recording becomes a signed note.
Start recording, consent-first
Record in the room or on a telehealth call behind a per-visit consent banner the patient can see and pause. Consent language is configurable by jurisdiction and logged with a timestamp.Or upload audio captured elsewhere
Drop in an MP3, M4A, or WAV up to 100MB to clear a dictation backlog — it runs through exactly the same pipeline as a live recording.Ona diarizes the transcript
Multi-speaker diarization separates clinician from patient and timestamps every turn. Ambient noise, interruptions, real rooms — the model was built for them, not for podcast studios.A draft is generated against your template
SOAP, DAP, BIRP, functional-medicine timeline, custom, or freeform — the transcript is mapped onto whichever template you chose, with patient and visit data pulled into [placeholder] fields.Review, adjust, sign
Edit inline or diff the draft against the transcript, then sign. Nothing leaves the chart until you do.
“I record the visit, we talk like humans, and the structured note is waiting when the door closes. I haven't taken charts home in a month.”
04 · In practice
What this looks like on a real day.
In-room family medicine
A 15-minute visit, charted before the next knock.
Record the consult and keep eye contact the whole time. The SOAP draft is structured against your template before the patient is back in the waiting room.
Telehealth therapist
DAP notes drafted the moment the call ends.
Ambient audio from the video visit is diarised in place. The DAP draft is ready as the call drops — no re-listening, no after-hours catch-up.
Practice clearing a backlog
Yesterday's dictations, uploaded and structured.
Upload a batch of recorded or dictated visits. Each one comes back as a structured note against the right template, ready for the signing clinician.
Multilingual clinic
Consult in one language, chart in another.
The conversation happens in the patient's language; the note is generated in the language your records are kept in. Nothing is lost in the hand-off.
FAQ
Common questions from clinicians.
What is an ambient AI scribe?
An ambient AI scribe records a patient consultation and automatically drafts a structured clinical note from the conversation. Ona's scribe diarizes each speaker, maps the visit to your template, and returns a review-ready draft you edit and sign.
Is Ona an AI medical scribe I can use on telehealth visits?
Yes. Ona captures in-person visits and encrypted telehealth calls, or you can upload MP3, M4A, or WAV audio up to 100MB after the fact. Each recording uses a per-visit consent banner the patient can see and pause.
How does ambient charting automation keep me in control of the note?
Every draft opens in a review state. You edit inline, accept it verbatim, or diff it against the transcript, and nothing enters the chart until you sign.
Does Ona train AI models on my recordings?
No. Ona never trains on your audio, and recordings are encrypted in transit and at rest inside your dedicated tenant.
Can the scribe work across languages?
Yes. Ona can transcribe a visit in one language and generate the note in another — for example, consult in Spanish and chart in English.
How do template placeholders work?
Templates use plain [placeholder] syntax. When a note is generated, each placeholder is replaced with the relevant patient and visit data — chief complaint, medications, allergies, assessment — so the structure stays consistent and the right fields fill themselves.
Ready when you are
Stop charting after hours.
See the Ambient Scribe run against one of your own visit templates in a 15-minute demo.