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Ambience Healthcare announces Houston Methodist enterprise rollout of AI platform to enhance patient care and clinical workflows. Houston Methodist sees 40% reduction in documentation time and 80% utilization across specialties. SAN FRANCISCO & HOUSTON-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Ambience Healthcare announced today that its AI platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity has been successfully deployed across Houston Methodist. The nationally recognized leader in clinical excellence, innovation, and technology-enabled care is rolling out the platform enterprise-wide across its ambulatory, emergency and inpatient settings to support clinicians and nurses with documentation and clinical workflows. Following a broad evaluation of multiple leading ambient AI technologies, Houston Methodist selected Ambience after measuring strong clinician adoption and measurable improvements in efficiency, experience and care delivery. "Our goal was to adopt an ambient AI solution that could scale across primary, specialty and subspecialty care, covering ambulatory, emergency, and inpatient settings," said Dr. Jordan Dale, chief medical information officer and chief health AI officer at Houston Methodist. "Ambience took on the challenge of our complex specialty needs and extended its platform to our emergency and hospital medicine teams. As a result, our clinicians can complete documentation with system-wide context more efficiently while dedicating more attention to our patients." This milestone builds on an initial phased ambulatory deployment in which Houston Methodist expanded the use of ambient AI to emergency and inpatient settings. As the platform was deployed at scale, the team observed measurable changes in how clinicians documented care, managed workflows, and engaged with patients, including: Patient experience and care delivery * 27% increase in patient face time Clinician adoption and engagement * 80% of patient visits utilize Ambience across different specialties Clinician productivity and efficiency * 40% reduction in documentation time * 33% reduction in after-hours "pajama time" * 13% decrease in time to close encounters * +1.3 voluntary visits per clinician per day In addition to improving the clinician experience, Ambience is designed to support health systems' operational and financial objectives through compliant, coding-aware documentation. These capabilities are intended to help protect revenue integrity, reduce downstream CDI queries, limit billing risk and support a clear return on investment. "With sustained utilization across our clinicians, adopting ambient AI technology has been highly impactful, allowing the chart to work for the physician rather than the physician working for the chart," said Roberta Schwartz, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at Houston Methodist. "Seeing the joy our physicians express when they can focus fully on their patients has been remarkable." This enterprise rollout represents a key milestone in Houston Methodist's long-term digital and clinical transformation strategy, with Ambience positioned as a strategic platform across outpatient, inpatient and specialty care settings. "Houston Methodist is widely recognized for its leadership in clinical innovation and its disciplined approach to technology adoption," said Nikhil Buduma, Co-Founder and CEO at Ambience Healthcare. "We're proud to support their efforts to operationalize ambient AI at enterprise scale, including in emergency and inpatient settings where the complexity is highest." About Houston Methodist Houston Methodist is one of the nation's leading health systems and academic medical centers. The health system consists of nine hospitals: Houston Methodist Hospital, its flagship academic hospital in the Texas Medical Center, seven community hospitals and one long-term acute care hospital throughout the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Houston Methodist also includes a research institute; a comprehensive residency program; international patient services; freestanding comprehensive care, emergency care and imaging centers; and outpatient facilities. Houston Methodist employs approximately 35,000 people. In 2025, Houston Methodist had more than 2.4 million outpatient visits and more than 151,000 admissions. 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. Contacts. Media Contact Ana Dorta Aria Marketing for Ambience Healthcare [email protected] 914.393.6667 More News From Ambience Healthcare SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Ambience Healthcare, the leading AI platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity, today announced expanded "chart awareness" across its capabilities. Chart awareness enables AI to interpret a patient's full longitudinal record, including prior notes, diagnoses, labs, imaging, medications, pathology, and problem lists. That understanding is applied directly across documentation and coding workflows. While AI scribes focus on capturing clinical convers... SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Ambience Healthcare, the leading AI platform transforming clinical documentation and revenue integrity, today announced the appointment of Mike Valli as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Chief Value Officer (CVO). In this dual role, Valli will lead Ambience's global go-to-market initiatives while also owning the company's enterprise value framework - ensuring customers realize measurable, durable clinical and financial outcomes from Ambience's AI platform. This appoi... SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Following one of the most comprehensive evaluations of ambient AI technology in healthcare, MultiCare Health System, based in Tacoma, WA, has selected Ambience Healthcare for an enterprise-wide deployment of its AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows. The initiative advances clinician well-being, patient experience, and documentation quality across the organization. The deployment follows a rigorous, head-to-head evaluation throughout 2025...

Ambience Healthcare has expanded "chart awareness" across its AI platform, enabling the system to interpret patients' full longitudinal records including prior notes, diagnoses, labs, imaging and medications. The technology applies this understanding across documentation and coding workflows. The expanded capabilities include chart-aware patient summaries, assessment and plan generation, automated diagnostics extraction, and coding assistance grounded in longitudinal chart reasoning. These features aim to improve documentation accuracy, reduce compliance risk and strengthen revenue integrity. Ambience now supports over 200 subspecialties across outpatient, emergency and inpatient settings, achieving over 90% clinician adoption at enterprise deployments. Health systems have reported up to 40% reductions in documentation time and more than $13,000 in incremental annual revenue per clinician through improved coding accuracy. The San Francisco-based company is backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI Startup Fund and Kleiner Perkins.

Ambience Healthcare has appointed Mike Valli as Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Value Officer. In this dual role, Valli will lead global go-to-market initiatives whilst ensuring customers achieve measurable clinical and financial outcomes from Ambience's AI platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity. Valli brings over 15 years of healthcare technology experience, most recently serving as Chief Commercial Officer at symplr. He previously spent a decade at Optum in senior executive roles including Market President, building major hospital partnerships. The appointment comes as Ambience expands across large health systems and academic medical centres. The company also named Richa Gupta as Vice President of Care Transformation and Jeffrey Gerson as Vice President of Marketing. Founded in 2020, Ambience is backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI Startup Fund and Kleiner Perkins.