Empathia AI vs Transcribe Health

Empathia AI is a clinical assistant for clinicians, supporting patient intake, documentation, and follow-up on the web, iOS, Android, and through a Chrome extension. Before visits, it summarizes patient history, laboratory results, and referrals from uploaded files or screenshots. Intake accepts typing or voice and flags risks and insights. The scribing tools transcribe conversations in more than 30 languages and provide both verbatim and AI-assisted dictation. After visits, customizable templates generate care plans, handouts, and supplementary notes. Beta tools can suggest ICD and CPT codes from notes and complete forms, referrals, and requisitions for review. Listed EMR integrations include athenahealth, Accuro, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Epic, OSCAR McMaster, and Plexia. Empathia states that it is HIPAA, PHIPA, and PIPEDA compliant and lists SOC 2 Type II. A free trial lasts 21 days, covers 100 encounters, includes Premium features, and requires no credit card. Approved medical students and residents may receive free access subject to school approval. Premium pricing is $50 a year with annual billing or $75 a month with monthly billing.

Transcribe Health is an ambient AI medical scribe that drafts visit notes for care-team review and clinician signature, for in-person and telehealth visits. It produces structured SOAP drafts and provides SOAP and free-text templates. Its evidence assistant answers clinical questions using published guidelines, links cited sources, and scores source reliability. Notes can pass through drafting, refinement, and clinician sign-off, with edits logged and comments and @mentions available in notes. Listed EHR integrations include Epic, OSCAR, and Cerner, alongside an API and webhooks. Telehealth capture is listed for Zoom, Teams, and Meet via screen share. The maker says data is encrypted at rest and in transit with AES-256 and stored on Canadian infrastructure. Free includes 30 encounters per month, up to 90 transcription minutes, 1 GB storage, and up to three team members. Paid plans start at $56/mo billed annually, and a 14-day trial is offered. It is a documentation assistant, not an EMR, EHR, or system of record; providers must transfer finalized outputs into their certified EMR.