Referral packets, prior records, insurance letters, records requests, and the research you keep meaning to read. Hey Eduardo reads them with you on your Mac, and in local mode — the default — client information is never sent to us or to any AI company.
AI scribe tools record sessions and process them on their own servers under a BAA. Hey Eduardo is for everything else that lands on your desk — and it does that work on your Mac.
Hey Eduardo never listens to sessions. The only audio it hears is a question you hold the mic button to ask, and that recording is transcribed on your Mac and deleted straight away.
Client information is processed on your Mac and never sent to us or to any AI company, so there is no BAA to sign with us.
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A subpoena for a client's therapy records just arrived. Start by reading exactly what it asks for.
Select the subpoena, press Option-Shift-A, and ask.
All of the client's records since January 2024, including notes and billing, due October 5.
Then ask who signed it.
An attorney, not a judge.
The American Psychological Association says a subpoena alone generally isn't enough to send confidential records. So call your attorney or malpractice carrier first.
So why not paste it into ChatGPT or Claude? It names your client, their date of birth, and the records being sought. That's protected health information.
ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro don't come with a business associate agreement. In local mode, Hey Eduardo reads it on your Mac, and nothing is sent anywhere.
It won't tell you whether to comply. It gets you to that call knowing what's being asked, by whom, and by when. heyeduardo.app
Highlight the letter and ask What should I watch out for? to pull out the deadline, the reason given, and what they want from you. Then How do I respond? drafts a reply for you to edit.
Open a PDF from the menu bar and ask about it: the reason for referral, prior diagnoses, what has already been tried. Long records work best a section at a time, and Eduardo tells you when a document is longer than it can take in.
Get a plain-English read of what is being requested, by whom, and by when, before you speak to your attorney or check your licensing board's guidance. Eduardo explains the document; it does not give legal advice.
Highlight a dense methods section or a technical passage from a manual and press ⌥+Shift+E for a plain-language explanation. Useful for CE reading, too.
Summarize IEPs, 504 plans, and teacher reports into the points that matter for your evaluation. ⌥+Shift+D pulls out the dates, figures, and names on their own.
Turn rough bullet points into a clear letter, then edit it into your own voice. Review every draft before it goes out.
Before you sign an insurance panel contract, find out what can change without you.
Select the agreement, press Option-Shift-A, and ask.
Fees can change on 30 days' notice, the agreement on 45. Keep seeing clients, and you've agreed.
Then ask if you can share it.
Not without the plan's written consent.
So think twice before pasting this into ChatGPT or Claude. That sends these terms to another company's servers.
In local mode, Hey Eduardo reads it right here on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere.
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Local mode keeps client information off other companies' servers. These three settings protect what stays on your Mac.
Local is the default. In Settings → Cloud, check that Run summaries is set to On this Mac, and look for the grey Local badge on the panel. Never use cloud mode for client material; switching to it asks you first and names what changes.
Eduardo keeps your last 25 results, with part of the text you captured, so you can reopen them. For clinical work, switch off Keep my last 25 results in Settings → Reading → Recent, and clear anything already saved.
Client information that stays on your Mac is only as protected as the Mac. FileVault, Apple's built-in disk encryption, is in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Use a login password and screen lock too, and if you back up with Time Machine, encrypt the backup disk.
No software is HIPAA compliant on its own. Compliance depends on how your practice handles PHI. What Hey Eduardo changes is the disclosure question: in local mode, PHI is processed on your Mac and never sent to us or to anyone else. You are still responsible for securing the Mac itself, which is what the setup checklist on this page covers.
Not with us. A BAA is needed when a vendor receives PHI on your behalf, and in local mode we never receive it. Cloud mode is different: it sends the text you capture to the AI provider you chose, so keep cloud mode off for anything involving PHI.
No. Hey Eduardo is not an AI scribe and never listens to sessions. The only audio it hears is a question you hold the mic button to ask, which is transcribed on your Mac and deleted straight away. You can paste your own notes in and ask it to summarize or restructure them, but you review everything and keep full clinical responsibility.
Yes, one screen at a time. Press ⌥+Shift+C and drag a box over the page, and Apple's Vision engine reads the text on your Mac. The image itself is never sent anywhere; only the text is used, and it follows your local or cloud setting.
Cloud mode is opt-in: you add your own Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter API key, and the text you capture is sent to that provider under your account. It is meant for general research with no client data, so do not use it with client material. The panel shows a Local or Cloud badge at all times, so you always know which one is on.
By default it keeps your last 25 results, including up to 4,000 characters of the text each one came from, so you can reopen them later. That history is stored on your Mac only and never uploaded, and follow-up conversations are not saved to it. For clinical work, switch it off and clear it in Settings → Reading → Recent.
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