Ambience Healthcare Introduces Nursing Suite to Extend System of Intelligence Across Inpatient Nursing

With the addition of Nursing Summary and Ambient Flowsheet Documentation, Ambience now supports inpatient nurses across their entire shift

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ambience Healthcare, the leading AI platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity, today announced a significant expansion of its nursing suite with the introduction of Nursing Summary and Ambient Flowsheet Documentation. Together with Chart Chat for Nursing, released earlier this year, these three capabilities now meaningfully advance Ambience’s single system of intelligence designed to support inpatient nurses from pre-shift preparation through documentation.

Ambience maintains one of the highest clinician-to-staff ratios in healthcare AI, with nearly one in five employees bringing direct clinical experience. That internal expertise shapes everything about how the nursing suite was built. Co-designed with CNOs, CNIOs, and frontline nurses and validated in real clinical environments, the solution addresses what nurses identified as their most pressing challenges, starting with the cognitive burden.

"We started by listening to nurses, not by adapting tools built for other care settings," said Nikhil Buduma, Co-Founder and CEO of Ambience Healthcare. "What they told us, consistently, is that documentation is only part of the problem. The bigger challenge is everything that comes before it: understanding every patient, staying on top of changes throughout the shift, and carrying the constant anxiety of not missing something critical. This suite is built to address all of it.”

Ambience's nursing suite now addresses the full arc of a nurse's shift:

• Nursing Summary delivers a complete clinical and psychosocial picture of every patient before the shift begins, including hospital course, major events since admission, barriers to discharge, psychosocial context, and a shift handoff report, surfaced automatically before a shift starts. No recording or query required.
• Chart Chat for Nursing allows nurses to ask plain-language questions about their patients' care at any point during the shift, from “Why are the LFT’s elevated?” to “Help me explain the plan of care in 5th grade English.” Drawing on chart-aware reasoning, it retrieves and synthesizes notes, policies, medications, and diagnostics with source citations at every step.
• Ambient Flowsheet Documentation captures the narrated patient assessment into structured flowsheets, eliminating manual data entry. Each discrete value is linked to the exact spoken phrase, requires nurse confirmation before submission, and powers richer clinical reasoning within Chart Chat and more complete shift handoffs.

All three capabilities are built on the same chart-aware foundation that powers Ambience's broader inpatient platform, reading and reasoning over the patient's full record rather than a single encounter, and are held to a three-tier safety architecture including pre-deployment evaluations, real-time response-quality monitoring, and nurse-in-the-loop feedback on every output.

To learn more, visit ambiencehealthcare.com.

About Ambience Healthcare

Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity. Trusted by top health systems across North America, Ambience's platform is live across outpatient, emergency, and inpatient settings, supporting more than 200 specialties with real-time, coding-aware documentation directly within major EHRs. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma, Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins and other leading investors.