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Ambience Healthcare

Ambient AI documentation and coding platform for health systems

Editorially reviewedChecked Sep 2026How we review
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Toolglade editorial score

Our assessment — not a user rating. How we score

4.1/5
Enterprise readiness
8.0
Compliance posture
8.0
Workflow depth
8.0
Integration surface
6.0
Transparency
5.0

Security & compliance

Verified against each vendor's own trust page. Not legal advice — confirm current status with the vendor.

Toolglade’s take

Ambience is a well-funded, enterprise-grade ambient documentation platform with named academic and health-system customers, and it markets HIPAA compliance along with SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST certifications with BAAs available. It handles protected health information, so any deployment requires formal security, privacy and clinical-governance review, and clinicians must review and sign all AI-generated notes and codes. This is not a self-serve consumer tool: pricing is custom and sales-led, and reported figures are third-party estimates. Verify all compliance and pricing details directly with the vendor.

Should you use Ambience Healthcare?

Best for
Large hospitals and health systems · Academic medical centers · Multi-specialty groups
Not ideal for
Solo clinicians wanting a cheap self-serve scribe · Practices needing same-day, no-contract signup · Organizations unable to complete enterprise security review
Biggest strength
Deep EHR integration (Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth)
Biggest weakness
No public pricing; enterprise sales-led only
Pricing
From Custom (enterprise)
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Facts & pricing last checked September 2026. How we review

About Ambience Healthcare

Ambience Healthcare is an enterprise ambient AI platform that generates clinical documentation, structured notes and coding suggestions in real time, integrated into major EHRs. It targets hospitals and health systems, reports large reductions in charting time, and markets HIPAA compliance with SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST certifications. It is sold via a sales-led, custom-priced model with pilots and BAAs rather than self-serve signup.

Ambience Healthcare builds an ambient AI platform for clinicians that listens to patient-clinician encounters and generates draft clinical documentation, structured notes, and coding suggestions (including ICD-10) in real time. Rather than positioning itself as a single-clinician scribe app, Ambience targets enterprise health systems and integrates into EHRs such as Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner) and athenahealth, with an emphasis on documentation quality, coding accuracy and compliance. The platform's stated value is reducing clinician documentation burden and burnout while supporting revenue-cycle integrity through more complete, compliant notes. Ambience reports significant reductions in charting time and has secured named health-system customers including Cleveland Clinic, UCSF, John Muir Health and Memorial Hermann. Ambience is sold through an enterprise, sales-led model: there is no public self-serve pricing or free trial, and deployments involve pilots, security review and BAAs. The company states it is HIPAA compliant and holds SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST certifications. Because it handles protected health information, any organization evaluating Ambience should conduct its own security, privacy and clinical-governance due diligence, and clinicians remain responsible for reviewing and signing AI-generated documentation.

TL;DR

Ambience Healthcare is an enterprise ambient AI platform that generates clinical documentation, structured notes and coding suggestions in real time inside major EHRs. It targets large health systems, reports significant charting-time reductions, and markets HIPAA compliance with SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST. It is heavily funded (a $243M Series C in 2025 valued it at roughly $1.25B). It is sold via a sales-led, custom-priced model, and clinicians must review all AI output.

Company overview

Ambience Healthcare develops AI reasoning models for clinical documentation and coding, aimed at hospitals and health systems rather than individual clinicians. Named customers include Cleveland Clinic, UCSF, John Muir Health and Memorial Hermann.

The company has scaled rapidly on the back of large venture rounds and positions itself around documentation quality, coding integrity and compliance for enterprise deployments.

Product features

Ambience captures patient-clinician encounters and generates draft clinical notes, structured charts and coding suggestions (including ICD-10) in real time, integrated into EHRs such as Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner) and athenahealth. It also supports referral letters and pre/post-visit summaries.

The platform emphasizes revenue-cycle integrity and compliance, and reports reductions in clinician charting time. It maintains a public trust center detailing security and compliance practices.

Target market

Large hospitals, academic medical centers and multi-specialty health systems that need enterprise-grade documentation and coding with deep EHR integration.

Buyer personas

End users

Physicians, advanced-practice providers and other clinicians documenting encounters.

Buyers

Health-system executives, CMIOs, CIOs and revenue-cycle leaders.

Key influencers

IT security teams, compliance officers, clinical informatics staff and EHR administrators.

Ideal customer profile

A large health system or academic medical center seeking enterprise ambient documentation and coding integrated with its EHR, with formal security and compliance governance in place.

Funding & performance

Ambience Healthcare raised a $243 million Series C in 2025, co-led by Oak HC/FT and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), valuing the company at approximately $1.25 billion. Existing and new investors included the OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Optum Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, Town Hall Ventures, Smash Capital, Georgian and Founders Circle Capital. It previously raised a $70 million Series B (February 2024), with total funding reported around $345 million.

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Deep EHR integration (Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth)
  • Coding support tied to revenue-cycle integrity
  • Named academic and enterprise health-system customers
  • HIPAA compliance with SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST certifications
  • Strong funding and enterprise focus
  • Reported large reductions in charting time

Cons

  • No public pricing; enterprise sales-led only
  • No free trial or self-serve signup
  • Long procurement, pilot and security-review cycles
  • Requires clinician review of all AI output
  • Overkill for solo practitioners or tiny clinics
  • Reported pricing figures are third-party estimates

Pricing plans

Enterprise
Custom
  • Ambient documentation and coding
  • EHR integration
  • BAA and compliance support
  • Custom deployment and pilots

Key features

API
Mobile app
Team collaboration
Multi-language
Integrations
Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), athenahealth, EHR integrations
Input types
audio, text
Output types
text, clinical-notes, medical-codes
Best For
Enterprise clinical documentation, Medical coding support, Reducing clinician burnout, Health-system-wide deployment

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Frequently asked questions

Is Ambience Healthcare HIPAA compliant?+

Ambience states it is HIPAA compliant and offers Business Associate Agreements, and it reports SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST certifications. Verify current compliance posture directly with the vendor for your organization.

Does it integrate with Epic and other EHRs?+

Yes, Ambience integrates with major EHRs including Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner) and athenahealth.

Can I sign up individually and try it?+

No. Ambience uses an enterprise, sales-led model with no self-serve signup or free trial; deployment involves pilots and security review.

Does Ambience replace clinician documentation review?+

No. The AI generates drafts, but clinicians remain responsible for reviewing, editing and signing all documentation and coding.

How much does it cost?+

Pricing is custom and not public. Third-party estimates exist but should be confirmed directly with Ambience for your specific deployment.

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