

Efficient treatment documentation and stronger reimbursement claims.
Find out how to get started with smart documentation.
Increase your efficiency in treatment documentation and clinical justification.
Balancing care with the requirements of extensive administrative tasks is a challenge. With smart documentation, Ottobock offers a tool that simplifies and improves the documentation of care as well as the clinical justification for products for your users. This solution provides an efficient, structured approach to managing documentation so that you can focus on providing the best possible care for your users.
Spend less time documenting and more restoring mobility.
With this innovative tool, you can navigate case reports more efficiently, easily enrich your notes with media, and capture key details in just a few clicks – all in less time and all right from your browser.

Show users’ progress with photos & video
When you create documentation projects with smart documentation, you can embed any videos and images you capture with a standard smartphone, tablet, or RGB camera. Simply upload and start editing.
When you create documentation projects with smart documentation, you can embed any videos and images you capture with a standard smartphone, tablet, or RGB camera. Simply upload and start editing.

Save time with editable templates
Speed up your workflow with prebuilt modules designed for orthotic and prosthetic treatment. Pick from a range of editable templates optimized for specific Ottobock products. Our experience is built into every one.
Speed up your workflow with prebuilt modules designed for orthotic and prosthetic treatment. Pick from a range of editable templates optimized for specific Ottobock products. Our experience is built into every one.

Customize & standardize as needed
In smart documentation, you can easily create documentation templates tailored to your clinic’s needs and requirements. Once you have built a new custom template, your colleagues can log in and leverage it at any time.
In smart documentation, you can easily create documentation templates tailored to your clinic’s needs and requirements. Once you have built a new custom template, your colleagues can log in and leverage it at any time.

Streamline clinical collaboration
Need a second opinion or want a colleagues’ input on a case? With smart documentation’s web-based tools, you can seamlessly share documents and collaborate with your fellow clinicians in real time.
Need a second opinion or want a colleagues’ input on a case? With smart documentation’s web-based tools, you can seamlessly share documents and collaborate with your fellow clinicians in real time.
Create comprehensive, convincing reimbursement claims.
With smart documentation, you have a range of tools to simplify the clinical justification process and support your recommendations in your reimbursement submissions. By simply providing the patient’s information, AI technology automatically generates a fully personalized justification letter tailored to the specific situation of the patient. The only task for the O&P professional is to review the letter, saving time and ensuring accuracy in the submission process.

Visualize your impact
Strengthen your submissions with photos and videos that show your user’s increasing mobility. Capture them in your clinic and easily embed them in your documentation for payers, health ministries, and more.
Strengthen your submissions with photos and videos that show your user’s increasing mobility. Capture them in your clinic and easily embed them in your documentation for payers, health ministries, and more.

Show before & after
With smart documentation’s intuitive media editing tools, it’s easy to find and combine the right assets for your documentation.
With smart documentation’s intuitive media editing tools, it’s easy to find and combine the right assets for your documentation.

Try new video analytics
Test a new way to measure your user’s progress with smart documentation’s markerless motion analytics feature. This tool is designed to capture biomechanical data straight from your users’ video. You will be able to get the step length symmetry, knee and ankle ROM and cadence from your patient.
Test a new way to measure your user’s progress with smart documentation’s markerless motion analytics feature. This tool is designed to capture biomechanical data straight from your users’ video. You will be able to get the step length symmetry, knee and ankle ROM and cadence from your patient.
Get integrated support at every step.
Need step-by-step instructions before you dive in? In smart documentation you will find in-depth support at every step of your documentation projects, including:
Library of how-to videos for both new and experienced users
Ottobock reimbursement experience built into product-specific templates
Comprehensive FAQ

Create new documentation projects in 4 simple steps.
- Simply open a new project and select the editable modules you need to include in your documentation. Or, select a product-specific template and edit as needed.
- Upload user images or videos to the smart documentation web app in any standard format. You can easily annotate them with case history notes, add background information on the user’s care, and highlight specific points with text notes.
- Easily cut, compare, combine, and comment on your videos and images, all in just a few clicks.
- If needed, download annotated documentation to share with payers, health ministries, and/or self-pay users.
End-to-end protection for your users’ data.
Ottobock has designed smart documentation to be fully compliant with GDPR and HIPAA regulations governing the storage and transmission of user information. To protect your own compliance, follow these data privacy steps any time you use this tool:
When you take photos or videos of your user, always verify that you have their consent to use that media in your treatment documentation
When you create a new video documentation project, a pop-up form will ask you to acknowledge that their video can be shared with Ottobock via smart documentation. Please ensure your user has seen and consented to this information before you proceed
All shared media, extracted data, and consolidated documentation will then by fully encrypted and stored on GDPR/HIPAA-compliant servers within the EU
For more information, please review the full smart documentation Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.