CLINICAL AI
Ambient AI
The capture layer of Clinical AI: listening to a consultation and producing a structured clinical report, without manual note-taking.
What ambient AI means
Ambient AI is the capture layer of Clinical AI: software that listens to a consultation as it happens and produces a structured clinical report, without the clinician typing, dictating into a template, or stepping out of the conversation to take notes. The AI stays in the background, ambient to the encounter, so the clinician can stay focused on the patient.
How ambient capture works at MedTalk
- Works equally for in-person and telehealth/video consultations
- A session can be paused and resumed at any point without losing context
- Speech recognition and speaker processing run on the audio as it's captured
- Audio is securely stored for up to 24 hours, then permanently destroyed (burn-after-read)
- The transcription and generated report are shown side by side, and both are editable
Ambient AI vs. dictation and templates
Ambient AI is distinct from dictation software (which requires the clinician to speak the note aloud, separately from the consultation) and from static templates (which the clinician fills in manually). Ambient capture generates the structured output directly from the natural conversation, then hands it to the clinician for review.
Contact
General enquiries: hello@medtalk.co
Support: support@medtalk.co