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Getting started
4What is Porvio? A clinician-led documentation workspaceLearn what Porvio does, where it fits in an Ontario practice, and why every generated note remains a draft until a clinician reviews it.Getting started with Porvio: from account to first reviewed noteA practical setup guide for creating a Porvio workspace, choosing a plan, protecting the account, and completing a first clinician-reviewed note.How consent works before encounter capture in PorvioUnderstand Porvio's consent checkpoint, what it records, and what Ontario practices still need to decide before using AI-assisted encounter capture.Ask Porvio: product help, short memory, and its confirmed actionLearn what Ask Porvio can answer, what it cannot access, how short chat memory works, and how its template favourite action requires confirmation.
Documentation
7From encounter capture to finalized note in PorvioFollow the complete Porvio documentation workflow: prepare context, confirm consent, capture the encounter, review the draft, and deliberately finalize.Organizing patient context and encounters in PorvioUse patient profiles, history, medication context, and encounter timelines without turning the workspace into a cluttered duplicate record.Create and manage clinical note templates in PorvioDesign reusable Porvio templates with clear sections, focused instructions, appropriate visibility, and enough flexibility for an accurate clinical record.SOAP notes: a practical structure for Ontario cliniciansUse the Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan structure accurately, understand its limits, and build a safer SOAP template in Porvio.A clinical note review checklist for AI-generated draftsReview AI-generated clinical notes for identity, attribution, accuracy, omissions, uncertainty, bias, and follow-up before finalization.Turn reviewed notes into clear follow-up tasks in PorvioReview suggested actions, assign clear ownership, preserve clinical boundaries, and use Porvio tasks to close the loop after an encounter.Search clinical evidence in Porvio and assess the sourcesUse Porvio's PubMed-backed evidence search carefully, read beyond the summary, and judge relevance, study design, date, and applicability.
Practice operations
4Set up a Porvio team workspace without over-sharing accessPlan seats, invite team members, assign roles, prepare shared templates, and test the Porvio team workflow before live use.Porvio roles, permissions, and audit historyUnderstand workspace roles, least-privilege access, membership changes, and how audit history supports practice accountability without replacing it.Choose a Porvio plan and understand encounter allowancesCompare Porvio Starter, Individual, Team, and Large team options by monthly encounter capacity, seats, billing period, and rollout needs.Porvio encounter add-ons and referral bonus encountersReview Porvio's exact-quantity add-on pricing, its premium and capacity order, plus the terms for a 20-encounter referral bonus.
Privacy and safety
5AI-assisted clinical documentation in Ontario: an adoption guideA practical guide to evaluating and introducing an AI scribe or documentation assistant in an Ontario healthcare practice.Patient consent for AI scribes in OntarioWhat Ontario practices should explain, document, and prepare when asking a patient to consent to AI-assisted encounter capture.PHIPA and clinical AI vendors: questions Ontario practices should askA PHIPA-focused due-diligence checklist for Ontario practices evaluating an AI scribe or clinical documentation vendor.Responsible AI in clinical documentation starts with clinician reviewUnderstand why AI-generated notes remain drafts, what errors to expect, and how clinician review, transparency, and monitoring reduce risk.Security checklist for AI clinical documentation toolsEvaluate identity, access, encryption, vendors, secure development, monitoring, incident response, retention, and recovery before using clinical documentation software.