The AI rounding companion

Notes done when rounds are done.

RoundCompanion walks the wards with you — synthesizing your pre-round chart review, capturing bedside dictation, tracking every task across your panel, and finishing structured notes before you reach the workroom.

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Built by a physician who rounds. Preparing for HIPAA-compliant clinical use. Independent of every EHR — Epic, Cerner, Meditech, paper: your finished note pastes anywhere.

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See how a doctor’s spoken updates become a patient summary, a note, and a task list. All patients shown are fictional.
See how it works

The workflow: three moments, zero evening charting.

You have to pre-round anyway — every physician does. RoundCompanion makes that work count twice: your chart review becomes your morning brief, your brief becomes your note, and every to-do you speak lands on one list. And the folded paper list retires — once you've pre-rounded, all fifteen patients are on your phone, each one's story at the door, without opening the EMR again.

1 · The pre-round tab becomes your morning brief.

Dictate your chart review once — it turns into a bulleted background that works twice.

Pre-round dictation
“81-year-old, day 4, admitted with a GI bleed — two units transfused on arrival. Hemoglobin stable overnight at 9.2, second set held. EGD Tuesday showed a duodenal ulcer, clipped. On pantoprazole drip. Cards saw her — okay to resume aspirin at discharge.”
Background summary · auto-built
  • 81-year-old, day 4 — GI bleed, 2 units on arrival
  • Hgb 9.2 stable overnight
  • EGD Tue: duodenal ulcer, clipped · on pantoprazole drip
  • Cardiology: resume aspirin at discharge
Your bedside reminderGlance at it outside the door — the whole story in five seconds, without logging into the EMR again.
The backbone of today's noteThe background flows into the final note automatically, updated with whatever you dictate happened today.

2 · Two dictations. One finished note.

Your morning chart review and your bedside visit — combined into one complete note, automatically.

Pre-round · over coffee
“72-year-old, admitted Tuesday with a heart failure exacerbation. Overnight uneventful. Morning BNP 400, down from 1,200 on arrival — creatinine stable at 1.1. Still on IV furosemide.”
Bedside · in the room
“Feeling much better this morning — slept through the night, no shortness of breath. On exam, lungs are clear, no leg swelling, comfortable on room air. Keep the furosemide 40 IV today, switch to oral tomorrow morning if she stays stable. Chase the echo this afternoon. Thinking home in two to three days.”
Progress note ✓ pre-round context loaded

Subjectivefrom the encounter

Reports feeling much better — slept through the night, no shortness of breath.

Objectiveexam + morning labs

Lungs clear to auscultation. No peripheral edema. Comfortable on room air.

BNP 400 (↓ from 1,200 on arrival) · creatinine 1.1, stable.

Assessment & Plan

Heart failure exacerbation — improving on IV diuresis, BNP falling, exam decongested.

  • Continue furosemide 40 mg IV daily.
  • Transition to oral diuretic tomorrow morning if clinically stable.
  • Follow up echocardiogram this afternoon.
  • Anticipate discharge home in 2–3 days.
Nothing invented, nothing lost — every line traces back to something you actually said.
Pre-round context Subjective Objective Plan

3 · Say it once. Chase it from one list.

Every to-do you speak becomes a task — collected across your whole panel.

You say, mid-encounter…
“…looks good today. Recheck the potassium at 4, call the daughter after lunch, and let's get PT to see him before discharge.”
Tasks extracted · this patient
Recheck potassium at 4 PM
Call daughter after lunch
PT evaluation before discharge
Whole panel · end of rounds
Rm 308 · Os Ke
Repeat digoxin level
Rm 402 · Li Ch
Recheck potassium at 4 PM
Call daughter after lunch
Rm 507 · Sa Gr
Repeat Doppler in AM
Check them off as you go — or export the list at end of shift for a clean hand-off.
Taking over a service

Picking up fifteen new patients? Be ready before rounds.

As you review your new patients’ charts, photograph their prior progress notes. RoundCompanion organizes the background into summaries with the main issues in bullet points, and uses the prior notes to help structure today’s documentation.

See the service-takeover workflow1:20
From yesterday’s progress note to a background summary, today’s updates, and a note ready for your review. All patients shown are fictional. Download video ↓

1 · Snap the note

Go down your list — one photo of each patient’s prior note, right off the screen or page.

2 · It reads the note

Review the captured text, then tap Save Note to build the background summary.

3 · Background, built

Your bedside reminder before you walk in — and the backbone of today's note, updated with what you dictate happened today.

×15

By the time you walk onto the floor, every summary is waiting. Dictate what changed overnight in Pre-Round, then save and process to update the summary. Outside each room, review that background. After the visit, briefly dictate today’s findings and plan changes in Encounter. Your preparation contributes to each note, ready for your review.

An actual RoundCompanion background summary for a fictional demo patient with pneumonia
An actual RoundCompanion summary for a demo patient. Tap to enlarge.
“Like the resident who walks beside you and never forgets — every patient, every task, every day of the admission.”

Why one hospitalist built RoundCompanion

Why RoundCompanion

A scribe writes one note. A companion carries the whole service.

Single-encounter AI scribes forget your patient the moment the visit ends. RoundCompanion is built around the rhythm of rounding — panels, days, hand-offs, and the hundred small tasks in between.

Longitudinal patient memory

Day 3 knows what happened on day 1. Backgrounds, courses, and problem lists carry forward across the whole admission — not one encounter at a time.

Panel-wide task management

Labs to chase, consults to call, discharges to line up — captured from your own words, tracked across every patient, exportable at end of shift.

Bedside dictation

Speak naturally in the room. Medical-grade speech recognition keeps drug names and doses straight.

Structured note generation

Dictation becomes a complete, formatted progress note — in your template, with your signature block.

Pre-round synthesis

Overnight events, labs, vitals, and med changes — organized before you see the patient, not after.

Three clinical settings, one app

Hospital rounding, clinic visits, and SNF rounds share one home. Your workflow follows you between buildings — because you're the same clinician everywhere you badge in.

EHR-independent

No integration project, no IT committee. Your finished note pastes into any chart on earth.

Who it's for

Anyone who rounds on more than one patient.

Rounding is a memory sport. Carrying a panel means juggling hundreds of details before lunch — and patient-safety research has long linked that cognitive load, and the constant interruptions that come with it, to missed follow-ups and preventable harm. Ambient scribes write the visit note and forget the patient; no AI system has helped clinicians actually round — stay organized across a panel, across days. That is the gap RoundCompanion was built to close.

Hospitalists

Carry a 15–20 patient census without carrying it in your head — or into your evening.

SNF & facility medical directors

Facility rounds with regulatory-ready documentation, across every building you cover.

Nurse practitioners

Full pre-round to hand-off support for a busy inpatient panel.

Physician assistants

Keep the service moving — notes, tasks, and hand-offs in one place.

You, if you round

More than one patient at a time? This was built for your morning.

BAAs signed · preparing for HIPAA-compliant clinical use Adversarially tested on hundreds of dummy charts Built & field-tested by a practicing physician Independent of every EHR — it works for you Nothing invented — sources only
Meet the founder

Built on rounds,
by someone who rounds.

Dr. Vikram Samala brings more than seven years of combined experience as a hospitalist and a medical director for multiple nursing homes. Now a cardiology fellow, he is still seeing patients and writing notes.

RoundCompanion began as a tool for his own mornings.

Read the founder’s story
Security and patient privacy

Preparing for clinical use.

We have signed business associate agreements (BAAs) with our hosting and AI providers to cover their responsibilities for handling patient data. RoundCompanion is being prepared for HIPAA-compliant clinical use, and we plan to begin the SOC 2 audit process.

The EHR remains the permanent medical record — RoundCompanion is a documentation companion, not a records system.

Round with a companion.

Early access is opening to a small group of clinicians. Tell us where you round — a physician reads every request.

Please don’t include patient information.

No spam, no sales calls. We reply from a physician's desk, not a funnel.

Prefer email? vikram@roundcompanion.com