What if a Consultation Could Document Itself?
🧠 Doctors shouldn't have to choose between listening and typing. What if a consultation could document itself?
In most telehealth visits, a doctor is doing three things at the same time:
- Listening to the patient
- Thinking clinically
- Typing notes, prescriptions, and orders into the EHR
That third part often breaks the flow of the conversation. During a few discussions around virtual care workflows, it struck me how much administrative work still happens during a consultation — even in a digital environment. Doctors often need to listen, type notes, write prescriptions, and later update the EHR. This creates unnecessary overhead and interrupts the natural flow of the consultation.
So I decided to experiment with something.
I built a Chrome extension for virtual consultations that:
- 🎙️ Transcribes the doctor–patient conversation in real time
- 🧠 Parses the prescription and clinical instructions from the conversation
- 🔗 Automatically sends medications, labs, and notes to Athenahealth via API
The idea is simple:
⚡ Goal: Let doctors focus on the patient conversation, not the keyboard.
What started as a small prototype turned into something surprisingly useful for clinical workflow automation in telehealth.
Still exploring where this could go next — particularly around:
- Telemedicine platforms
- EHR workflow automation
- AI-assisted clinical documentation
If you're building or working in digital health/telehealth infrastructure, I'd love to exchange ideas. And if this is something your team might find useful, feel free to reach out — happy to share more about it.
Always happy to share what I've built and hear how others are solving similar problems.