Every conference, every journal, every headline said the same thing: AI is becoming indispensable.
The Augmented Clinician is run by a team of practicing clinicians who grew tired of the narrative that doctors will soon be replaced by AI. We set out to prove the opposite. AI won’t replace us, it will empower us. So we started exploring the tools out there, testing them ourselves and scoring them honestly, to find the ones that actually make clinicians better. This site is the result.
We focus on the two areas where AI gives clinicians the most back: clinical decision support: the tools that answer clinical questions at the point of care, and AI scribes: the tools that capture the visit and draft the note, so documentation stops eating the day. These are where AI does the most to empower clinicians, and where the wrong tool does the most harm. So they are what we test, score, and write about.
We are not investors, vendors, or analysts. We are practicing clinicians who care which tools help us treat patients better, and which ones don’t. We publish our methodology, our scores, and our conflicts of interest, and we do not accept payment or sponsored placement.
Our clinical content is reviewed by Dr. L, a practicing general medicine physician in the UK with over 10 years’ experience, who writes under a pen name for privacy.
If a tool we cover changes, gets better, gets worse, raises its price, drops a country, we update the page and log it. Read our editorial policy and disclosures for the full picture.