Pick finder: which medical records AI fits your job
Answer in brief: pick your role, say whether you work in Epic, and choose the job that costs you the most hours. The finder returns our pick for that job in your setting, a runner-up and the catch to check before you sign. The same answers sit in the table below, so it works without JavaScript too.
Limits: Vendor facts come from each vendor's own website (1 from trade press), read 2026-11-12. We haven't run every product, and prices change, so check the vendor before you buy.
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All answers in 1 table (no JavaScript needed)
Rows are the job that eats your hours; columns are your role. "Epic" notes show where running Epic changes the answer. Picks as of 2026-11-12.
| Job | Solo practice | Group or clinic | Hospital clinician | Physician reviewer | Risk or quality team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visit notes | Doximity Scribe; Freed | Freed; on Epic, the EHR's scribe | The EHR's scribe (Abridge, Dragon Copilot, Nabla, Suki) | Doximity Scribe, if you also see patients | Not your job |
| Reading outside records | Abstractive Health; on Epic, Epic AI Insights | Abstractive Health; on Epic, Epic AI Insights | Abstractive Health; on Epic, Epic AI Insights | Medrecords AI (ours) | Medrecords AI (ours) |
| Chronology | Dodonai | Dodonai | Dodonai | Dodonai; Medrecords AI (ours) if it feeds a report | Dodonai; Medrecords AI (ours) if it feeds a report |
| Getting records | Abstractive Health | Abstractive Health; Metriport if you build | Abstractive Health; Metriport if you build | Datavant (custodian requests) | Datavant (custodian requests) |
| Coding | Scribe code suggestions (Freed) | Fathom | CodaMetrix or AKASA | Not your job | Not your job |
| Patients' app questions | ChatGPT Health; on Epic, MyChart first | ChatGPT Health; on Epic, MyChart first | MyChart first on Epic; ChatGPT Health | Rarely asked | Rarely asked |
Worked example: 3 physicians, 3 different answers
Synthetic example, no real people. 3 physicians run the finder on the same afternoon.
- A family physician in a 2-doctor practice, not on Epic, drowning in notes. Result: Doximity Scribe, runner-up Freed. Check first: the note goes in by copy and paste and the audio is gone. If pasting 25 notes a day hurts, Freed's EHR push is worth $59 to $79 a month on Core.
- An orthopedic surgeon who does IMEs on Fridays, with 1,500-page files. Result: Medrecords AI (ours), runner-up Dodonai. Check first: the trial starts after a demo. If the deliverable is only a chronology, Dodonai's annual plan may be enough.
- A hospitalist on Epic whose patients arrive with records from 3 other systems. Result: Epic AI Insights for the chart already in Epic, and Abstractive Health for what sits outside it. Check first: networks only return what participating organizations share, so a thin outside record is a question, not an answer.
Same category of software, 3 different buys. That is the whole argument of this site: name the job before you name the product.
How the finder decides
It applies 3 rules, in this order:
- Use what your organization already licenses when the job lives inside the EHR (scribes, pre-visit summaries, patient portals). Integration and an existing BAA beat a better standalone tool.
- Match the buyer. Tools sold only to health systems or developers aren't offered to a solo practice, and tools for medico-legal files aren't offered for clinic work.
- Prefer a stated BAA and visible sources for anything that reads PHI on your behalf. Where the pick lacks a BAA statement (Dodonai's pricing page, ChatGPT Health by design), the "check first" line says so.
The finder doesn't weigh price beyond those rules, because published prices exist for only some tools in each category. Price detail is on each category page.