Physical therapy is documentation-heavy and increasingly continuous — care now extends to the patient’s home through monitoring and apps. AI helps on both fronts: cutting the paperwork and supporting between-visit care. Here’s how to adopt it right, and how dgm implements it. (dgm implements osFoundry, a separate company’s platform — we are not osFoundry; clinical and compliance decisions stay with your team.)

What AI actually does for PT practices

The honest framing: AI cuts documentation time and extends care between visits, so therapists spend more of the session on hands-on treatment. The lowest-risk, fastest wins are documentation and admin; monitoring and movement-assessment add clinical value with more considerations attached.

High-value use cases

  • Ambient documentation — drafting SOAP notes from sessions for the therapist to review.
  • Remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) — tracking home-exercise compliance via apps/wearables.
  • Movement/motion assessment — AI-assisted analysis to inform rehab (therapist-verified).
  • Scheduling and admin — booking, reminders, and front-office load.

The compliance reality: HIPAA and the device line

  • HIPAA / BAAs. PT providers are HIPAA covered entities when they transmit PHI electronically, so any AI vendor touching patient data needs a BAA (restricting training on your data).
  • Remote monitoring transmits PHI to vendors — that’s a BAA relationship, not a casual app integration.
  • Some movement-assessment AI may cross into FDA device territory if it drives clinical decisions — fact-specific, so confirm device status and keep clinical AI therapist-verified.

dgm builds the technical controls into the implementation; clinical and compliance decisions stay with you.

How to start

Start with ambient documentation — the fastest paperwork win — with a BAA and therapist review in place. Prove the time saved, then expand into monitoring with the right vendor agreements. dgm’s assessment finds the right starting point.

How dgm helps

dgm implements osFoundry and other AI for US physical therapy practices — within HIPAA-appropriate controls, focused on documentation and admin first, with training included. Pricing is fixed and public: a $399 assessment and $3,999/month implementation, with no per-seat fees. If you’d rather explore the platform first, go straight to osFoundry; if you want PT AI done right, that’s where dgm comes in.