Closing Ambient Clinical Documentation Gaps with Automated Provider Queries

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arXiv:2610.07502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Provider queries are clarifying requests sent by clinical documentation specialists to physicians to close gaps in the clinical note and ensure accurate billing. Prior work automates note drafting, ICD-10 coding, and order extraction assuming a complete transcript, leaving these gaps unaddressed. We study whether an LLM can automate the query loop, termed DAU (Draft, Ask, Update), across those three tasks. An audit of 3,000 real visits identifies t