Looking for a Freed Alternative? What Allergy Practices Should Check First

Freed is one of the better-known ambient AI scribes, and for a family

medicine or urgent care clinic it may be exactly right. But if you run an

allergy practice, "good general-purpose scribe" and "right scribe for you"

are different questions. Allergy visits are structurally unlike most

outpatient encounters, and a scribe that has never seen a 40-well panel will

document around your actual work, not inside it.

Here is the checklist we would give any allergist evaluating a scribe —

including ours.

Seven questions before you sign

1. Does it know what a wheal is? Ask the vendor to document a skin-prick

session: histamine control, saline control, forty allergens, sizes in

millimeters. A general-purpose scribe transcribes the conversation about the

test; it does not hold the test itself as structured data.

2. Where do the skin test results live? If the answer is "in the note

text," every future visit starts with re-reading prose. Medora keeps SPT,

IDT, and patch results as structured records that the next note can build on.

3. Can you trace every line of the note? When a payer, a colleague, or

your own memory asks "where did this history item come from," Evidence

Mapping links each supported line of the SOAP note to the transcript moment

that produced it. Ask any vendor to show you their version of that.

4. What happens with immunotherapy? Build-up schedules, maintenance

doses, reaction notes across months — allergy is longitudinal. A scribe that

starts fresh every visit puts the burden of continuity back on you.

5. Does the note reach your EMR, or does a human paste it? Medora writes

back to IMS Meditab natively. On other EMRs we are honest about it: the note

travels the way your current process does. Ask every vendor the same

question and watch for vagueness.

6. Who reviews before it counts? Any scribe worth trusting makes

clinician review non-negotiable. Every Medora note is reviewed and signed by

the clinician before it exists as documentation — no exceptions.

7. Was it built where you work? Medora runs daily inside a working

allergy practice. The features exist because a real clinic's nurses and

physicians hit real walls.

The honest summary

If most of your visits look like general outpatient medicine, a

general-purpose scribe may serve you well. If your days are skin panels,

immunotherapy schedules, and evidence-heavy allergy histories, you will feel

the difference between a scribe that listens to allergy visits and one that

was built inside them.

See Medora on your own cases —

a live demo on a synthetic patient, with the skin-testing workflow included.