Context upgrades and SNOMED coding

February 24, 2025•4 min read

Attach files to Context

Great clinicians take into account more than the information that emerges during a patient encounter. Yet, until now, Heidi’s Context was suited mainly for point-of-care remarks and observations.

Heidi now supports uploading PDFs, .doc files, and images into Context, for more complete notes or documents.

Here are some things you may upload:

Discharge summaries (to document transitions of care)
Specialist reports (to include key recommendations)
Patient intake forms (to capture pre-visit concerns and updates)
Imaging reports with findings (to accurately document diagnostic results)
Lab results (to analyze trends and incorporate results)
Outside pharmacy records (to verify medication history)

Your imagination is the limit. If it’s information you’d need to write a great note, Heidi can make use of it, too.

To view supporting information about your uploaded files, select View all above the paperclip icon.

Help Heidi understand your attachments by labelling each item with a date and a free-text description. However, Heidi will attempt to appropriately contextualize your attachments without this information.

In addition to attachments, continue using Context as normal before and during the patient encounter. Heidi will consider all Context in producing your text artefact.

Create documents from only Context

We’ve heard clinicians wanting to write medicolegal reports, compiling multiple past encounters, or otherwise creating documents outside the patient encounter.

Now, you can bypass transcribing to produce a document from Context:

Click New session
Navigate to the Context tab
Type, paste, or upload encounter context
Select Create note from context at the bottom right of your text editor
Select a template
Magic ensues

No longer is there a need to start and stop transcribing to produce text artefacts.

SNOMED coding (alpha)

We want to eradicate clinician pyjama time. In the pursuit of getting you home on time, we noticed clinicians all across the world using Heidi to produce codes: ICD-10, CPT, HEDIS, HCC, SNOMED, MBS, and more. Additionally, teams are bringing medical coders themselves onto Heidi.

So we built a purpose-built model for coding and baked it right into Heidi.

We’re convinced something has gone horribly wrong if clinicians are committing disease classification codes to memory.

This limited alpha is being previewed to a limited number of clinicians in the United Kingdom, for SNOMED codes only.

Users with access to this feature will now see suggested codes after processing a clinical encounter in Heidi.

Clicking on the red code count opens the Review codes sidebar.

Each code in the sidebar appears as an interactive card, from which you can:

Confirm the individual code by checking the box
View Code specification by selecting the info icon

Review evidence from the transcript supporting the code (equalizer icon)

Replace the code by searching for a suitable alternative

Remove the code from the list

You can also add new codes from the sidebar and confirm all codes in the list.

Confirmed codes are appended to the bottom of your note. You can click individual codes to make further changes if required.

Please note: Clinicians are responsible for manually reviewing all suggested codes to ensure they accurately reflect the patient encounter.

Also note: We have plenty more codesets on the way. If you’re interested, please submit requests or vote here. If you are a UK clinician and want to enrol to this alpha, reach out to us.

See the Help Centre article for more detailed instructions on Coding.

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