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Best Practices for Getting the Most from Corti Assistant: A Guide for New Adopters

Updated over a week ago

Welcome to Corti Assistant. Whether you are just beginning to use our AI scribe or looking for ways to enhance your documentation practices, this guide will help you unlock more value from the tool. Our goal is to support clinicians in producing clear, accurate, and complete medical notes with minimal additional effort.

Why Thoughtful Documentation Matters

In patient interactions, clinicians naturally balance clarity for the patient with precision for the medical record. For example, you might tell the patient:

“Your symptoms and this ECG suggest you may be having a heart attack.”

However, in the medical note, greater specificity is required:

“The 12-lead ECG suggests an anterior wall STEMI.”

Corti Assistant helps bridge this gap by capturing both the patient-friendly communication and the clinical facts needed for high-quality documentation.

Key Techniques to Enhance Your Documentation

Start/Stop Dictation

Start/stop dictation allows you to intentionally control when Corti Assistant is recording during the patient consultation. You can start recording when you want the Assistant to capture specific parts of the conversation and stop it when you want to pause documentation.

When to use:

Use start/stop dictation during the live interaction. For example:

  • Start recording while reading the medical record to capture your thoughts, as described below. Stop it while fetching the patient, or doing other tasks.

  • Start recording as the conversation starts so introductions are captured. This will help the model avoid mixing up identities if many people are present.

  • Stop recording if needed for patient comfort during sensitive discussions or when consultation is being interrupted by phone calls or other staff.

  • Restart recording after the patient has left to add clinical details or to summarize the plan.

Purpose:

This technique gives you precise control over what is documented from the live conversation, helping to focus the scribe on relevant clinical dialogue.

Pseudo Dictation

Pseudo dictation refers to recording a summary of clinical findings, decisions, or observations after the patient interaction has ended (or during a natural pause when appropriate). In this method, you narrate key details that were not verbalized during the consultation but are important for the medical record.

When to use:

Use pseudo dictation after the patient encounter to:

  • Capture findings that you observed but did not say aloud to the patient.

  • Document the clinical interpretation of data (such as ECG findings, imaging results, or exam observations).

  • Summarize actions taken or decisions made that were not part of the patient dialogue.

Example:

After the patient leaves, you record:

“12-lead ECG shows ST-elevation in leads V2–V4, consistent with anterior wall STEMI. Cath lab activated. aspirin 300 mg PO, morphine 5 mg IV, nitroglycerine 0.4 mg SL given at 14:23. Vitals stable: BP 120/75, HR 78, SpO₂ 97% RA.”

Purpose:

This technique helps ensure that key clinical details, interpretations, and actions are documented clearly, supplementing what was captured during the patient dialogue.

Summary of Techniques

Technique

When to use

What it captures

Start/Stop Dictation

During the live consultation

Specific parts of the conversation that you choose to record

Pseudo Dictation

After the consultation or during a pause

Your spoken summary of findings, interpretations, and actions not part of the dialogue

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