AI for Doctors
Most of what a doctor loses time to is not diagnosis, it is paperwork. These are the tools that help with the paperwork, plus the evidence-lookup ones worth trusting. Read the warning below before any of it touches a patient record — the honest position is that this catalog has no cleared clinical documentation product in it yet.
Evidence lookup and keeping current
The job here is finding what the literature actually says without reading forty abstracts. These tools cite what they tell you, which is the only reason they belong in clinical work at all — an answer you cannot trace is an answer you cannot use.
- ConsensusFREEMIUM~$12/mo
Answers a clinical question straight from published papers and shows you how many support it, so you see the weight of evidence rather than one study.
- ElicitFREEMIUM~$12/mo
Pulls the data out of a set of trials into a table — sample size, population, outcome — which is faster than reading them to compare.
- SciSpaceFREEMIUM~$12/mo
Explains a dense paper paragraph by paragraph. Useful when you are reading outside your specialty.
- Semantic ScholarFREE$0
Free, and its citation graph shows whether a paper held up or quietly stopped being cited.
- PerplexityFREEMIUM~$20/mo
Fast orientation on guidelines and drug information with links. Treat it as a starting point, never the citation.
- NotebookLMFREE$0
Upload the guidelines your trust actually follows and ask questions against those documents only, so answers come from your protocol rather than the internet.
Dictation, notes and letters
General-purpose transcription and drafting, which is where the real hours go. None of these are built for consultations, and that distinction matters more here than anywhere else on this site — see the warning below.
- Otter.aiFREEMIUM~$17/mo
Transcribes meetings and dictated notes cheaply, with a usable free tier for MDT meetings and teaching sessions.
- GranolaFREEMIUM~$14/mo
Takes your rough typed notes and fills them into a clean summary afterwards, so you are not writing full sentences during a conversation.
- SpeechifyFREEMIUM~$29/mo
Reads documents aloud at speed — for getting through letters, discharge summaries and journal articles on a commute.
- GrammarlyFREEMIUM~$12/mo
Catches the errors in referral letters and reports that you stop seeing after the fourth draft.
- ClaudeFREEMIUM~$20/mo
Best of the general assistants at turning bullet points into a readable clinic letter, and at rewriting one for a patient rather than a colleague.
Patient communication and teaching
Explaining things twice, once for the notes and once for the person. This is where general AI earns its keep, because reading-level rewriting is genuinely what these models are best at.
- ChatGPTFREEMIUM~$20/mo
Rewrites a diagnosis or a discharge plan at a reading level a worried patient can follow, in whatever language they need.
- GammaFREEMIUM~$10/mo
Turns teaching notes into slides for a departmental session in about a minute, which is roughly the amount of prep time you have.
- CanvaFREEMIUM~$15/mo
Patient leaflets and posters that do not look like they were made in Word in 2006. Free tier covers most of it.
- KrispFREEMIUM~$12/mo
Strips ward noise out of telehealth calls and dictation. Runs locally, which is the reason it is on this list rather than a cloud alternative.
Rota, inbox and the rest of the admin
Not medical, just the overhead that comes with the job. Cheap wins, and none of it touches clinical data if you keep it that way.
- MotionPAID~$34/mo
Rebuilds your task list around the time you actually have free, which suits a week that gets rearranged by other people.
- SuperhumanPAID~$40/mo
Triages a heavy inbox fast and drafts the short replies. Expensive, worth it only if email is genuinely your bottleneck.
- Reclaim.aiFREEMIUM~$10/mo
Defends admin and study time in your calendar before meetings eat it.
- ZapierFREEMIUM~$30/mo
Joins the systems that do not talk to each other, so routine forwarding and logging stops being a manual job.
Nothing on this page is a cleared clinical documentation tool. The ambient scribes built for consultations — Abridge, Microsoft DAX Copilot, Heidi, Freed — are not in this catalog yet, and the general transcription and chat tools listed here are not a substitute for them. Consumer tiers of these products are not covered by a BAA or a DPA that would make identifiable patient data acceptable, and several train on input by default. Assume anything you paste is disclosed until your own governance team tells you otherwise in writing. Use these for literature, teaching, drafting and admin; keep identifiers out.
How to pick AI tools as a doctor
Split the problem in two before you look at any product. There is clinical work, where the bar is information governance and traceable evidence, and there is everything else — letters, teaching, rota, inbox — where the bar is just whether it saves you time. Almost all of the available value is in the second bucket, and almost all of the risk is in the first.
For evidence tools, the only question worth asking is whether it shows you the source. A model that summarises the literature without citing it has given you something you cannot put in a note or defend in a review. Consensus, Elicit and Semantic Scholar all cite by design; a general chatbot does not, and will invent a plausible reference if pushed.
For anything involving a patient, the deciding factor is contractual, not technical. A consumer subscription is not a data processing agreement. If your organisation has not approved the tool for identifiable data, the tool is for de-identified or non-clinical work only, however good it is.
Prices on this page are what one clinician pays per month at normal use, divided down where the product bills annually. Several of these have free tiers that are genuinely enough for literature and teaching work, which is the sensible place to start.
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