As more than 30,000 health and tech professionals gathered at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, ambient clinical documentation was the talk of the exhibition floor. This technology allows doctors to consensually record their visits with patients. The conversations are automatically transformed into clinical notes and summaries using artificial intelligence. Companies like Nuance Communications, Abridge and Suki have developed solutions with these capabilities, which they argue will help reduce doctors' administrative workloads.