Overview
- The redesigned encounter embeds athenaAmbient to capture clinician–patient conversations and draft notes, diagnoses, orders and prescriptions inside athenaOne.
- Sage, an AI clinical copilot in limited release, summarizes charts and answers point-of-care questions, and is built to swap large language models after initial training on ChatGPT.
- athenaAmbient enters user testing in February 2026 and the broader encounter starts testing in the first half of 2026, so the features are not yet generally available.
- The ambient scribe will be delivered via routine athenaOne updates at no additional cost, will be auto-embedded in workflows with a clinician toggle, and requires patient consent before use.
- The AI experience taps athenahealth’s cloud platform and ChartSync to surface insights from external EHRs, payers and registries, aligning with market moves that KLAS research links to better EHR experience.