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Practical guides on AI medical scribes, clinical documentation, and physician compensation, written by a practicing cardiologist.
Suki started as a voice assistant, where clinicians spoke commands to pull up chart data and dictate (Business Wire, 2022). Today it also generates ambient notes, stages orders from the conversation, and answers spoken questions about the chart. NovaScribe takes a simpler route. You talk with your patient normally, with no commands to learn, and NovaScribe writes the note for you to paste into any EHR.
Read the articleIf you searched for “DAX AI scribe,” the product you’re looking for has a new name. On March 3, 2025, Microsoft announced Dragon Copilot, which combines Dragon Medical One (its dictation product) and DAX Copilot (its ambient AI scribe) into one assistant. Microsoft said it would be generally available in the U.S. and Canada starting in May 2025.
Read the articleDoximity Scribe is free for every verified U.S. physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, CRNA and student in those programs. If you already have a Doximity account, it’s likely the first AI scribe you’ll try. Free is a real advantage, and for many clinicians it’s enough. This post covers what Doximity Scribe does well, and what NovaScribe adds for physicians whose pay depends on how each visit is coded.
Read the articleA wRVU (work relative value unit) is the standard unit Medicare uses to measure the physician work in a service: the time, skill, effort, and stress it takes to perform it. A quick medication check is worth about 1 wRVU. A moderately complex office visit is worth about 2. Major surgery can be worth 20 or more.
Read the articleAn AI medical scribe listens to your patient encounter and drafts the clinical note for you. You review it, edit it, sign it, and move to the next room. Done well, it returns one to two hours of your day. The market now has more than a dozen options, priced anywhere from free to more than $1,000 per provider per month, and the differences between them are not obvious from their homepages.
Read the articleAn AI medical scribe costs anywhere from $0 to more than $1,000 per provider per month in 2026. That range is so wide it’s almost useless, so this guide breaks it into bands, explains what each band actually buys, and walks through the fees that don’t appear on pricing pages. It ends with the arithmetic for deciding whether a scribe pays for itself in your practice.
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