Observer Medical by Golden Observer

For medical, dental and therapy practices

See how your practice actually runs.

Observer Medical records and transcribes the conversations in your office and turns them into a plain picture of your day. It lives on one small device in your building, and your recordings never leave it.

What it shows you

The things every practice manager wants to know and nobody has time to measure.

How long patients really wait

From check-in to the room, by hour and by day, so you can see where the day backs up.

What was promised, and whether it happened

Call-backs, refills and referrals that were said out loud at the desk, and whether they were done.

Who is carrying the load

How the work spreads across your team, hour by hour, so busy people get help before they burn out.

Read back what was said

Search the day's conversations at the front desk, and hear any line again when a detail matters.

Your recordings stay with you

Observer Medical was designed around one rule: what happens in your office stays in your office.

  • On the device, in your building. Audio and transcripts are kept on the device at your clinic. They are never sent to us or to any cloud.
  • We cannot see or hear your recordings. Nothing the device records is ever sent to us.
  • Patterns, not patients. It recognises your staff by voice. It never identifies patients.
  • Keep what you want, for as long as you want. You decide how long recordings are kept, and you can delete them at any time.
  • We sign your BAA. A Business Associate Agreement comes with every device, along with a ready-made section for your annual risk assessment. How HIPAA works with Observer Medical.

The short answers

Where recordings liveOn the device in your office. Nothing is sent off site.
Who can see themOnly the staff you choose, behind a PIN. The screen locks itself.
Record of accessEvery view, setting change and update is logged on the device, for your privacy officer.
Telling patientsOne sentence in your Notice of Privacy Practices or intake form. We give you the wording.
Telling staffOne line in your staff handbook. We give you that wording too.
Patient roomsA separate room setting keeps no words and no pictures, and can alert your staff on its screen when a patient may need help. It is assistive only — not a medical alarm and not a replacement for nurse call.
HIPAARecording to run your practice is health care operations. We sign your Business Associate Agreement.
What it is notNot a medical device, not used for diagnosis or treatment, and not part of any patient's medical record.

Free 90-day pilot

Try it in your own office before you decide anything.

  1. We install it. One device at your front desk, set up by us.
  2. You add one sentence to your privacy notice and one line to your staff handbook.
  3. You watch your practice for 90 days. We check in with you along the way.
  4. You decide. Keep it, or end the pilot with 7 days' notice. If you stop, we erase the device, give you a certificate of erasure, and take it back.

Talk to us

Observer Medical is made by Golden Observer LLC in Ashland, Oregon. Write to Mark Hutto and we will set up a 15-minute call.

Please do not send patient information by email.