Op-note writer & improver
Dictate the case. Sign a complete note.
Coda turns what you say — or what you already wrote — into a complete operative note. It asks only when something is genuinely unresolved, renders your answers in your words, and keeps every version. It never invents a detail, and it never touches a code.
Then see how coding works →From dictation to a signature-ready note
Say what happened.
Dictate the case the way you’d tell a colleague, or paste rough fragments. No template to fill in, no fields to click through.
Answer only what’s unresolved.
Coda composes the full note, then asks only the clinical questions the record genuinely leaves open — laterality, extent, devices, technique. Each question exists because the note needs it, not because a checklist has it.
Approve.
Your answers are rendered in your words. Skip a question and the note stays clean — no placeholder scars. You review, you sign.
“lap chole for chronic cholecystitis… cholangiogram looked fine… closed in layers…”
Following induction of general anesthesia, a laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed for chronic cholecystitis with cholelithiasis…
- Closure section now documents the closed-suction drain (your answer)
- Copied-forward “tolerated well, to PACU stable” removed — conflicts with ICU transfer
- Laterality stated once, consistently, in every section
Already have a note? Coda makes it hold up.
Paste any existing note. Coda reads it the way a reviewer would: it finds internal contradictions — a device placed in the narrative but missing from the implant list — and the copied-forward boilerplate that quietly contradicts what actually happened, like a routine “recovered stable to PACU” line carried into a case that went to the ICU. Then it asks, rebuilds the note from what you confirm, and shows you exactly what changed and why. Nothing is silently rewritten.
Complete means complete
Every note covers what the record must show — procedure and findings, laterality and extent, devices and specimens, complications — the elements CMS and The Joint Commission expect in an operative report. When a case took substantially more, or less, work than usual, Coda asks why and records your reason verbatim — in both directions, which is exactly why it holds up.
Complete documentation is how the work you did becomes work you’re credited for: in the record, and in the claim.
Written in your department’s voice
Notes shouldn’t read like they came from software. Coda is built to write the way your service documents — your section order, your terminology, your conventions — learning the pattern from your department’s own prior notes. Department style alignment is rolling out with our partner hospitals; today, every note already follows the documented standard your reviewers hold you to.
What the writer never does
Never invents a detail.
If the record doesn’t say it and you didn’t say it, it isn’t in the note. Coda asks — and renders your answer, not its guess.
Never adds a qualifier you didn’t state.
“Removed” is not “totally removed.” The note says what happened, at the precision you gave it.
Never touches a code.
The writer is deliberately code-blind — no CPT, no ICD-10, no payment language in the note or its questions. Coding happens downstream, in the open.
Never optimizes for reimbursement.
Complete and true is the goal. That is what makes the claim defensible.
A record you can stand on
Every draft, every question, every answer, every approved change is kept and attributable. Months later you can see what the note said, what changed, and who approved it — a complete, versioned record of every case you performed.
See it on one of your own notes
Request a demo — bring a de-identified note and watch it rebuilt.