Check up on your patients, not your documentation
Empower surgeons to make clinical documentation easy and effortless. Nuance Surgical CAPD learns surgeons’ documentation patterns—improving efficiency immediately and over time—and reduces billing time by 75%.
How in-workflow surgical CAPD impacts physicians and hospitals
Discover how Nuance Surgical CAPD is changing the way physicians capture, leverage and deliver patient information.

Named Best in KLAS 2023 for Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation, driving documentation accuracy and better quality outcomes across care settings.
Why Nuance Surgical CAPD?
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The rules around clinical and surgical documentation are constantly evolving. In-workflow guidance adapts to keep up with changing requirements while mobile and speech solutions improve efficiency.
Surgeons waste an extraordinary amount of time on repetitive administrative tasks. Nuance Surgical CAPD leverages learned behaviors along with existing clinical information to improve efficiency, streamline documentation & coding.
Care and coding teams depend on the timeliness of quality information. Nuance Surgical CAPD connects and immediately delivers clinical documentation and coding data to many popular office and hospital EMRs.
Video case studies
Maximize your surgical documentation workflow and capture the appropriate detail
Learn how Nuance’s Surgical CAPD solution helps Dr. Matthew Thom from West Alabama Urology Associates maximize his workflow during the day and why he feels Surgical CAPD is by far the best.
Hear from Surgeon, Dr. Matthew Thom, how Nuance’s Surgical CAPD solution allows surgeons to complete an accurate note and code it appropriately to drive an improvement in billing.
Reduce billing time by 75%
Save time by creating a specific and compliant report that reduces billing time by 75%, reduces disruptive retrospective queries and automatically sends a charge report to your office. See how Nuance Surgical CAPD(pdf. Open a new window) can impact your documentation workflow.

From Non-Procedural Reports (H&Ps, Consult Notes, Progress, Discharge Summaries) to Procedural (Operative, Endoscopy, Cath Report, etc.), Nuance Surgical CAPD makes creating and delivering electronic clinical documentation simple.

Generated from all clinical documentation, Nuance Surgical CAPD creates a suggested charge report immediately available upon eSign.
Benefits
For hospitals, surgery centers and physician offices
- Real-time advice presented at the point of care
- Capture more specific and compliant details
- 92% reduction in coding queries
- Immediate decrease in DNFB
- Automated charge capture report sent to the surgeon’s office
- Documentation and coding gaps disappear, bills can be ready in just 2 hours
- One pass documentation and charge capture
- Case tracking and discrete data capture for research and analytics
- Provides care team with immediate access to detailed full report without waiting for transcription
- Personalized workflows make it easy to learn and use Dragon Medical One to quickly capture narratives
- Mobile app to review schedules & capture notes on the go