Explain the documentation process to your patient at the beginning of the session, noting that speaking clinical observations allows you to maintain eye contact and therapeutic presence throughout the evaluation.

Your spoken psychiatric terminology, DSM-5 criteria, and mental status examination components transform into written documentation through the voice-to-text process.

Copy and paste your clinical documentation from the AI scribe into your behavioral health EHR system once you've reviewed and finalized the content.

Voice your clinical observations regarding suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, or abuse concerns directly during the assessment, creating documentation while following standard confidentiality protocols.

Verbalize your medication recommendations, monitoring parameters, and patient-reported effects during the appointment, creating documentation of these crucial treatment components.

Focus first on patient safety while briefly voicing critical clinical observations, then complete more detailed documentation after stabilizing the situation.