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Enhance Patient Connection: Focus on Care, Not Clicks, with Wavo Health

Documentation demands often pull clinicians' attention away from patients. Learn how Wavo Health AI Scribe allows you to maintain eye contact and focus fully on patient interaction.

WHT

Wavo Health Team

Patient Experience Advocates

July 31, 2024
Enhance Patient Connection: Focus on Care, Not Clicks, with Wavo Health

Enhance Patient Connection: Focus on Care, Not Clicks, with Wavo Health

The exam room computer, while essential, can often feel like a barrier between clinician and patient. The need to type, click through EHR fields, and hunt for information can disrupt the natural flow of conversation and connection. Wavo Health AI Scribe empowers you to shift your focus back entirely to the person in front of you.

The Challenge: Divided Attention

Traditional documentation methods often force clinicians to:

  • Look Away: Constantly turning to the screen breaks eye contact and can make patients feel unheard.
  • Interrupt Conversation: Pausing dialogue to type or search for information disrupts the visit's flow.
  • Multitask Mentally: Trying to simultaneously listen, diagnose, plan treatment, and document accurately is cognitively taxing and prone to errors or omissions.
  • Sacrifice Rapport: Building trust and understanding is harder when attention is divided.

Wavo Health: Enabling Presence and Focus

Wavo Health operates ambiently, allowing you to be fully present during the encounter:

  • Just Talk Naturally: Activate Wavo and then conduct your visit as you normally would. Have a natural conversation with your patient.
  • No Live Typing Needed: Wavo captures the conversation in the background. You don't need to type symptoms, histories, or plans during the interaction.
  • Maintain Eye Contact: Engage directly with your patient, observe non-verbal cues, and build stronger rapport.
  • Active Listening: Free from the distraction of documentation, you can listen more actively and empathetically to your patient's concerns.

How it Works: The Ambient Advantage

  1. Activate & Forget (Almost): Start Wavo at the beginning of the visit.
  2. Patient Interaction: Focus 100% on the clinical conversation and examination.
  3. Background Capture: Wavo securely records and transcribes the dialogue.
  4. Post-Visit Note: After the patient leaves, Wavo presents a structured clinical note based on the conversation.
  5. Efficient Review: Quickly review and finalize the note, adding any nuances the AI might have missed.

Benefits Beyond Efficiency

While time saving is crucial, the ability to focus on the patient yields significant benefits:

  • Improved Patient Satisfaction: Patients feel more heard and valued when they have their clinician's undivided attention.
  • Better Information Gathering: Uninterrupted conversation often yields more detailed and accurate patient histories.
  • Enhanced Trust: Direct engagement builds stronger clinician-patient relationships.
  • Reduced Clinician Strain: Less mental multitasking reduces cognitive load and stress during visits.

As stated on wavo.health, Wavo lets you "Focus on your patients, not paperwork." By handling the documentation burden, Wavo Health empowers you to return to the core of medicine: connecting with and caring for your patients.

Ready to enhance your patient interactions? Book a Demo or Start a Free Trial today.

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