Comparing AI scribes?
Setting, outputs, data residency, billing capture, price shape. Get those five right and the shortlist writes itself.
Five questions that separate the field.
Australian clinicians now have real choice in AI scribes, and the marketing pages blur together. The products do not. Five differences do almost all the deciding; here they are, with aurii's answer to each stated plainly. For any other vendor, their current documentation is the fair source.
- aurii: the ward round
Setting
Where did the product grow up? Clinic scribes are shaped around the consult room and are strong there; aurii is shaped around the private-hospital ward round: admissions, round visits, procedures, discharge. Your day should match the tool's home ground.
- aurii: the whole episode
Outputs
A note, or the whole episode? From one spoken review aurii drafts the progress note, the GP and referrer letters with Medical Objects delivery tracking, the discharge summary and the billing items. If you only need the note, you may not need all of that. If you round, you already produce all of it by hand.
- aurii: Sydney + Melbourne
Data residency
Ask where audio and notes live, and under whose keys; aurii is hosted in Sydney with a Melbourne backup, records encrypted, a 7-year tamper-evident audit trail, and no patient records offshore. Every vendor should answer this in one sentence; be wary of any that cannot.
- aurii: at the bedside
Billing capture
The quiet revenue question. In-hospital private health fund billing is where specialists lose the most to lost paper and weekend memory; aurii captures billing at the bedside from the same spoken review, for your sign-off. Most scribes stop at the note; check what your shortlist actually captures.
- aurii: A$199 + GST flat
Price shape
Flat, per seat, per note or tiered? With aurii it is one plan: A$199 + GST per clinician per month with everything included, about A$1.55 a consult at 30 consults a week. Whatever the shape, run the numbers on your own volume before comparing headline prices.
The honest sorting.
Neither answer is a sales line: the two settings genuinely want different tools.
- In rooms A GP or clinic-based clinician whose output is the consult note: shortlist the clinic scribes, they are built for you. Their own current documentation is the fair source on what each one does.
- On the ward A specialist who rounds at private hospitals and signs the whole episode's paperwork for every admission: that is the work aurii was built around, and early access is the fastest way to test the claim on your own round.
Asked while comparing.
The one built for your setting. Clinic scribes are strong for consult-room work in general practice; aurii is built for specialists rounding in private hospitals, where one spoken review has to cover the whole episode, not just the note. Match the tool's birthplace to your day and the choice usually makes itself.
The same twenty questions: where data lives and under whose keys, what happens to audio, who can read notes, what the clinical-safety posture is, what happens when you leave, and what the price actually covers. We publish the full checklist free at How to evaluate an AI medical scribe; send it to us too.
No, and this is the sharpest practical difference. Most scribes stop at the note; aurii captures private health fund billing at the bedside from the same spoken review, for the doctor to sign, because in-hospital billing is where specialists lose the most revenue to lost paper. Check any vendor's current documentation for what they actually capture.
The signed note does. With aurii nothing is filed, sent or billed until the doctor reviews and signs it; the draft is a draft. Whatever scribe you choose, confirm the signing model: the clinician, not the software, is the author of the record.
A$199 + GST per clinician per month, everything included, no lock-in contract. At 30 consults a week that is about A$1.55 a consult. Other vendors price per seat, per note or per tier; check their current pages and compare on your own consult volume.
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