Clinical Scribe

Writing up a visit after the patient leaves eats an hour a day and pulls attention away from the person in the room. And the obvious shortcut — just record it on the iPad — quietly fails: the moment the screen locks or you switch apps, the tablet stops listening, so half the visit goes missing without anyone noticing.

I built a recording tool that listens to an in-person visit on an iPad and writes the doctor's note for me automatically — in plain English, even when the conversation switches between English and Spanish. It quietly solves the screen-lock problem so the recording doesn't vanish, and it drops a clean summary straight onto the patient's record.

1. I pick today's patient from the schedule and tap Start — the screen stays calm and plain, with no obvious recording light a patient might notice.
2. It listens through the whole visit, even when the talk flips between English and Spanish, and tells apart who's speaking — the doctor versus the patient.
3. When I tap Done, it writes a short, plain-English summary: the patient's concerns, the plan, prices and key dates pulled out, and even real quotes the patient said.
4. Before anything saves, it shows the patient's name in big letters and makes me confirm twice — so a note can never land on the wrong chart.
5. The finished note and the audio go straight onto the patient's record, and a copy of each day's visits is filed away automatically.

The note is written before the patient is out the door, so I stay focused on the person in front of me instead of paperwork — and nothing from the visit slips through the cracks.