Healthcare AI Glossary
Definitions for AI healthcare terms, clinical technology concepts, regulatory language, and industry vocabulary used across the AI Healthcare Now knowledge library.
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- Ambient AI Scribe
- An AI tool that passively listens to patient-physician conversations and automatically generates clinical documentation such as SOAP notes, without requiring manual dictation.
C
- Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
- Software tools that provide clinicians with knowledge and patient-specific information to enhance clinical decision-making at the point of care.
G
- Generative AI in Healthcare
- The application of large language models and other generative AI systems to healthcare tasks including clinical documentation, patient communication, medical education, and research synthesis.