The Freed Clinician Assistant is an always-available AI assistant that streamlines clinical documentation by retrieving, summarizing, and updating patient records, while providing instant access to evidence-based clinical decision support (CDS). The assistant supports clinicians with faster chart navigation, intelligent note drafting and editing, and targeted clinical information retrieval at the point of care.
By reducing time spent searching through prior notes and results, the Clinician Assistant supports clinicians to focus on patient communication, clinical reasoning, and decision-making.
Below is a video overview of the Clinician Assistant.
A Unified and Powerful Assistant
The Clinician Assistant appears as a persistent panel on the right side of your screen. It's always available — whether you're reviewing a transcript, editing a note, or working on post-visit documentation. You can toggle it on or off using the show/hide button.
It understands the patient and visit context and can help you:
Pre-chart: Ask questions about the patient's history before a visit
Ask clinical questions: Query the latest clinical guidelines, protocols, drug interactions, and more — with sourced, cited answers (see below)
Edit clinical notes: Make notes more concise, detailed, or add additional context
Summarize prior visits: Get quick, relevant insights to help with follow-ups
Structure your note: Request specific formats or sections based on your specialty
Provide proactive suggestions (e.g., "Would you like to summarize this transcript?")
And more!
Simply type a question or command in natural language — no special syntax required.
Freed Clinician Assistant consolidates and replaces the following tools:
Magic Edit (editing and rephrasing clinical documentation; rollout is feature-flag gated and the Magic edit menu item still ships for some users)
Pre-charting chat (retrieving and summarizing prior visits)
Transcript and note summarization
Other contextual AI helpers tied to patients and notes
The Clinician Assistant brings all of these capabilities and more together into a single, intelligent assistant. Whether you're reviewing a patient's history, editing a note, or asking about clinical guidelines, the assistant is there to support your workflow — all in one place.
Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support
When you ask clinical questions, the Clinician Assistant provides answers sourced from 50+ medical sources, including PubMed and major societies (such as ACC/AHA).
Every clinical answer includes linked citations that you can inspect to verify the source. Citations are whitelisted to ensure reliability.
Privacy: Your patient's protected health information (PHI) is never passed outside of Freed when processing clinical decision support queries. All CDS processing happens within Freed's secure environment.
Availability by Plan
The Clinician Assistant includes two sets of capabilities. What you have access to depends on your plan:
Plan | AI Chat | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) |
Starter | Not included | Not included |
Core | Included — AI clinician assistant for editing | Not included |
Premier | Included | Included — sourced answers from 50+ verified medical sources with linked citations |
Groups | Included | Included |
AI Chat covers note editing, summarization, prior visit retrieval, and documentation support. Clinical Decision Support (CDS) provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions with sourced, linked citations.
How to Use the Clinician Assistant
The Clinician Assistant panel is visible on the right side of your screen whenever you're viewing a visit. You can ask questions or give commands at any time — before, during, or after a visit.
Before your visit: Ask the Clinician Assistant questions to help you prepare — for example, summarize prior visits or review medications discussed previously.
After your visit: Use the assistant to edit your note, generate documents, or ask clinical questions. Simply type your request and the assistant responds in context — it will automatically update your note if it infers an editing instruction.
The Clinician Assistant is an excellent tool for creating documents beyond those available in the visit tabs, e.g. customized letters, after visit summaries, discharge plans, and other custom care plan letters and documents.
Examples of prompts or questions:
"Summarize the last visit"
"Change the Assessment & Plan section to bullet point format"
"What meds were discussed last time?"
"Separate the Assessment and Plan by diagnosis"
"What are the latest AHA guidelines for Hypertension?"
"Change all "patient name" to "client"
"Which evidence-based guidelines apply to my patient?"
"Create a goals of care document that itemizes our plan for each of the patient's symptoms we discussed"
The Clinician Assistant works like any other chat, so you can continue the conversation as long as you'd like.
Response time: Depending on the complexity of your question, it can take a moment for Freed to think and produce an answer — typically less than 30 seconds.
Requests you make to the Clinician Assistant apply to the specific note and patient that you're viewing. To apply edits or ask about a different patient, open a note for that patient.
Dictate edits with the chat
The AI chat input at the bottom of the right-hand panel includes a dictation (microphone) button. It's the easiest way to add or modify content on a note that's already generated — no need to re-record the visit.
How to use it:
Open the finished visit note you want to edit.
In the AI chat at the bottom of the right-hand panel, click the dictation (microphone) button.
Speak your edit. Include a brief instruction telling the chat exactly what to do with what you say and where to put it — for example, "Add the following to the top of the Subjective: Patient reports new-onset substernal chest pressure that began this morning, intermittent, non-radiating, with mild associated shortness of breath. No diaphoresis."
Stop the dictation, then send the message into the chat.
Freed will perform the edit and place the dictated content exactly where you instructed.
This is well-suited for small additions, clarifications, rewording, or quick fixes. For best results, when dictating on top of a finished note we recommend the chat over the Resume button — Resume reruns the full transcript through your template, which can rewrite or reshuffle the existing note rather than simply appending your dictation.
Want a fully-dictated note (no patient encounter to capture)? A purpose-built dictation note template is available on request — please reach out to our Clinician Support team via the messenger or at [email protected] and we'll get you set up.
Show or Hide the Assistant
The Clinician Assistant panel appears on the right side of your screen by default. You can:
Hide the panel using the toggle button to give yourself more space for your note.
Show it again at any time by clicking the same toggle.
Note: Screenshots in this article may not reflect the latest UI. The Clinician Assistant layout was updated in April 2026 as part of the Freed 2.0 redesign. The functionality described above is accurate.
Get Support
If you need further help or have any questions, contact our Clinician Success team by clicking the messenger icon in the bottom right corner of your screen, emailing [email protected], or scheduling a 15-minute call with a Clinician Success Representative.
Disclaimer
The Freed Clinical Assistant, which is part of the Platform, assists in diagnosis, treatment planning, and other clinical decisions. The Freed Clinical Assistant is not a substitute for your judgment or that of any other healthcare professional and is intended solely to support, not direct, clinical care. The Freed Clinical Assistant allows you to review the basis of the recommendations that it makes.
More details can be found in our Terms of Use.