palmER Colab.

You're halfway through a chart and need to know whether this patient's cardiac history warrants a cardiology consult. Or you need discharge instructions for the patient that's waited hours for CT. Normally, you'd switch apps, lose context, and waste precious minutes.

palmER Colab is the sidebar assistant on every page of palmER AI Suite. It already knows what you're working on, so you ask, you get an answer, and you keep charting.

What is palmER Colab?

Colab is a slide-out chat panel that lives next to your notes. Think of it as a second AI assistant that knows the conversation from your main chat window automatically. Colab sees the same chart information you do (the patient's presentation, workup, and your documentation), so it can answer questions without you re-explaining the case.

This means you don't need to copy-paste your chart into Colab. It already knows. Just ask your question.

• Always available. Open it from the button in the top-right corner of any screen.
• Context-aware. It already knows the case, so you don't have to set it up.
• Independent. Colab has its own chat thread, so it won't interfere with your main documentation.

How to Use palmER Colab

1. 01

   Open palmER Colab

   Click the button in the top-right corner of any screen. The Colab panel slides in from the right.

2. 02

   Ask your question

   Colab already has context from your main chat window. Ask naturally.

   For example, if you just generated an HPI, you can ask: What imaging should I order for this patient?

3. 03

   Get your answer and keep working

   Colab responds in its own panel. Your main chat remains untouched. Review the answer, then continue documenting in the main window.

Opening and Closing

• Open. Click in the top-right corner.
• Close. Click again.

Reopening it brings back your previous Colab conversation.

Context Sharing

This is what makes palmER Colab powerful. When you ask a question, it already knows everything about the current case. No copy-paste, no re-explaining.

In practice:

You paste a chart into the MDM Assistant and generate an MDM. You open Colab and ask, What follow-up should this patient have? The answer comes back specific to your case, not a generic discharge template.

In the Patients workflow

When you have a patient selected, the context goes further. Every question you ask Colab is answered with that patient's chart already loaded.

Critical Care, Procedure, and Sepsis Documentation

Colab suggests critical care, procedure, and sepsis reassessment notes based on the encounter. Each suggestion includes a brief explanation and a button to draft the note. The sepsis checklist helps you catch what's missing before it turns into a follow-up email.

Draft a note

For critical care, check the time shown before clicking Write critical care note. Click Edit to change it. The initial value is your saved default, or "In excess of 30 minutes" if you have not set one. Make this my default saves the value for future critical care notes.

For a procedure, click Write procedure note. Procedures are listed separately, so you can write individual notes for a lumbar puncture, laceration repair, reduction, or other procedure identified in the encounter.

The note appears in the Colab conversation. The reminder then closes and shows Done. Click Dismiss on any reminder that does not apply.

Both notes follow your Critical Care and Procedure instructions in Documentation Preferences. Use them for your usual anesthetic, prep, closure materials, or phrasing so you do not have to correct the same thing on every note.

Revise the note

Tell Colab what to change in the message box. It already has the note and encounter context; a short instruction is enough:

• Change the lac repair to 4 5-0 nylon.
• LP: seated, clear CSF.
• Make it more concise. Keep all interventions.

Colab writes the revised version as a new reply. For a small correction, you can also click the pencil icon on the note and edit it yourself.

To generate the note again, expand the reminder marked Done and click Rewrite. If you need to change critical care time, edit the time first, then rewrite the note.

Copy and give feedback

Read the final version, then click its Copy button.

Your feedback helps us improve palmER. Use the thumbs beside a reminder or below a note. If you give a thumbs-down, adding details about what was incorrect, missing, or unhelpful helps us understand what to fix.

A dot on the panel button or Colab tab lets you know there’s something new to review.

Sepsis Detection and Reassessment

Colab highlights sepsis findings and shows a documentation checklist.

• Review the checklist; click any item to change its status.
• Click Write reassessment note, then review and edit the draft.
• Dismiss reminders that don’t apply.

Clinical Reference Built In

palmEM AI's extensive emergency medicine knowledge base is built into Colab. The same reference that powers palmEM AI Reference is available right in the sidebar, with your case context already loaded.

That means a single Colab thread can move from "what's my next move for this patient" to "verify the HEART score" to "draft these discharge instructions" without you switching tools.

Ask Colab the questions you'd normally pull up a reference app for:

• What's the heparin dose?
• Calculate the HEART score
• RSI medication doses?
• How should I manage this rhythm?
• Does this patient need an LP?
• Discharge instructions

The difference from opening palmEM AI Reference on its own: Colab already knows the patient. You don't have to spell out the clinical scenario. Just ask.

Clinical Use Cases

Pro Tips

• Ask naturally. Colab knows the case. You don't need to re-state anything in the chart. It already knows the patient and the encounter.
• Use it for quick side questions. Colab is built for the rapid-fire questions that come up while you chart.
• Colab works with every assistant. It's always one click away.