Medics Money podcast Ep 296: AI Scribes in healthcare and why THIS change will save you hours.
Nov 4, 2025
Dr. Dom Pimenta, a clinician-founder at Tortoise AI, shares his insights on revolutionizing healthcare with AI scribes. He discusses how these tools significantly reduce cognitive load for clinicians, improving patient connections and documentation quality. The conversation covers seamless telephony integration, challenges like AI hallucinations, and the necessity for medical regulation. Dom also offers advice for clinicians aspiring to launch startups, emphasizing the importance of safety and accountability in AI implementation to enhance productivity and reduce burnout.
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AI Scribes Restore Clinical Focus
- AI scribes transcribe consultations and draft notes, shifting cognitive load from clinicians to models.
- This restores clinician–patient focus while retaining structured data and coding benefits.
Scribe Like A Junior On Rounds
- Dom compared AI scribes to having a junior scribe on cardiology ward rounds who wrote notes and ordered tests.
- An older GP user said the tool felt like returning to pre-computer patient connection and loved it.
Integration Born From A Debug Hack
- The phone integration idea came from GPs dragging surgery audio files into Tortoise to debug the product.
- That led to a partnership capturing calls via Exxon backend and seamless EHR insertion for many sites.