Glossary

A quick reference for the words you'll see in Rebrief. Terms are in alphabetical order.

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A

Admin

Your clinic's admin invites and removes team members under Team in Settings. A clinic owner also sees Admin and Organization in the rail, after Settings.

AI credits

Your plan's allowance for each billing period, spent on work such as Evidence answers and documents. Settings shows it under Plan & billing as Agent credits used this period. Transcription is counted in minutes instead.

Appointment

One patient visit in Rebrief. It holds the transcript, the notes, the tooth chart, the perio chart and anything you create from it. Some web addresses say "session", which means the same thing.

B

Bridge

The Rebrief Bridge is a desktop app for Windows. It runs on the clinic computer beside your practice-management software and connects Rebrief to it.

C

Clinic

Your practice's workspace in Rebrief. Its patients, appointments and notes stay separate from every other clinic.

+ Create

The menu on an appointment's tab row, just before Export. It makes a Smart dictation pad, another note on a template, a document, a form or an AfterCare summary.

D

Document

A letter or sheet Rebrief writes from an appointment, such as a referral. You make one from + Create, and it opens as its own tab.

E

End

The button in the appointment header that finishes the appointment. Rebrief then polishes the note against the whole visit, reviews the chart and deletes the audio.

Evidence

The area for clinical questions. Answers come with key points and numbered citations you can open.

Export

The menu at the end of an appointment's tab row. It copies the note or the chart and makes PDFs on your letterhead. In the Rebrief Bridge, it can also send work to your practice software.

F

Faded suggestion

A faded line in the note that is not part of it yet. Add puts it in the note and Skip leaves it out. Faded text can also finish the line you are typing. Press Tab to take it or Esc to dismiss it.

FDI notation

The two-digit tooth numbering. Settings calls it FDI (International).

Form

A paper or PDF form your clinic already uses, saved once as a template. Rebrief fills in its blanks from an appointment.

K

Key points

The short box of bullets in an Evidence answer. It sums up the answer before the full text.

L

Learn

The area that turns your cited Evidence answers into short reading units. They count toward continuing education credit.

M

Medicolegal check

After End, Rebrief reads the finished note against the whole visit. It offers up to three faded suggestions for things a records reviewer would expect, such as consent. It checks the note on the Note tab only. The shield on the note's bar shows where the check stands.

N

Notation

The way teeth are numbered. Choose FDI (International) or Universal (US) in Settings, under Charting.

Note

The clinical record Rebrief writes on the appointment's Note tab as you talk. It starts blank, with no template, and fills standard sections such as findings, diagnosis, procedure and plan.

O

Odontogram

The tooth chart. It shows what was found, planned or done on each tooth. On a computer, it stays beside the note for the whole appointment.

P

Pause

Stops listening without ending the appointment. Resume picks up where it left off. While Rebrief stays open, a paused appointment ends itself after ten minutes.

Perio chart

The probing rows of the chart, on the buccal and lingual sides of each arch. They hold probing depths, gingival margins and clinical attachment levels, tooth by tooth. Bleeding and suppuration show as dots on the teeth.

Practice-management software

The program your clinic already uses for patients, schedules and charts, such as Open Dental. Rebrief works beside it rather than replacing it.

R

Regenerate

The button that rebuilds a note from the appointment's transcript. It asks first and keeps your own edits. The earlier version stays in Note Replay.

Remember

The button beside the edit bar in a finished note. It remembers how the highlighted words are written, for the rest of that note or for future notes.

Remembered rules

The rules Rebrief follows when it writes your clinic's notes and documents. Each one is a short line about wording or layout. See or forget them in Settings, under Remembered rules.

Resume

Starts listening again in the same appointment, after a pause or after End.

S

Scribe

The part of Rebrief that listens during an appointment, writes the note and charts what you say. Scribe in the rail opens your home screen. While an appointment is under way, it opens that appointment instead.

Sign-off

Your closing line, with your name and credentials. Once Rebrief remembers it, it ends every note Rebrief writes for you.

Smart dictation

A pad for your own words, opened from + Create. It writes what you say, with dental terms and tooth numbers corrected.

Sources

After End, sentences in the note link to the words said during the visit. Click into a linked sentence, then select its Source button to see them.

Sync

Bringing patients and appointments in from your practice-management software through the Bridge. Inside the Bridge, the round-arrows button on your home screen's schedule syncs today again.

T

Tab

One thing an appointment holds, shown on the row under its header. The transcript, each note and each document has its own tab.

Tasks

The area where you ask Rebrief to do a job in your practice software, through the Bridge. It asks you to approve a change before it makes it.

Template

A saved layout Rebrief writes into. The Templates area holds note, document and form templates.

Transcript

The words said during the appointment, kept on the Transcript tab.

Trigger phrase

Words saved on a document or form template. When someone says them in an appointment, Rebrief offers that document or form under Suggested for this appointment in + Create.

U

Universal notation

The tooth numbering used in the United States. Settings calls it Universal (US).

W

What's new

A card that explains a change to a screen you use every day. It shows once. To see it again, open Settings, then Help & tips, and select Show me beside What's new.