Methodology and conflict of interest
Short version: every vendor fact comes from the vendor's own website or a named news or hospital source, with a capture date. Error rates come from peer-reviewed studies we link. No vendor paid to be listed. Medrecords AI publishes this site and sells 1 tool on it, so we follow 6 written rules to keep that from tilting the content.
Limits: Vendor facts come from each vendor's own website, read 2026-11-12, and we haven't tested every tool; prices and features change, so check the vendor before you buy.
Where facts come from
| Source | Used for | Captured |
|---|---|---|
| Google US top results for "ai for medical records" and 3 close searches | Which tools and topics to cover, and what the field leaves out | 2026-11-12 |
| Each vendor's own website | Price, BAA or security statement, trial terms on the directory and costs page | 2026-11-12, linked per row |
| Hospital and EHR vendor publications (Stanford Medicine, Penn Medicine, EpicShare) | What in-house and EHR-native tools do | 2026-11-12 |
| Peer-reviewed studies (Asgari et al. 2025; Van Veen et al. 2024) | Error rates and error types on the risks page | 2026-11-12 |
| HHS guidance and 45 CFR 92.210 | BAA and decision support rules | 2026-11-12 |
| medrecords.ai/pricing.md, llms.txt and facts.json | Every fact about Medrecords AI | 2026-11-12 |
We read pages with a scraping tool and by hand. When a vendor doesn't publish something, the row says "not published" or "not stated". We don't fill gaps with estimates, and we don't use reviews, quotes or testimonials from vendor sites.
What we tested and what we didn't
We have not run every listed tool on a test file. The directory reports what vendors state. The scoring sheet and the synthetic test page on the evaluation page are tools for you to run your own test. Their weights and pass mark are our judgment, explained on that page, not an industry standard. The synthetic record is invented and describes no real patient.
Our conflict of interest, and the rules we follow
Medrecords AI publishes this site and sells Medrecords AI, a record review tool listed in the directory. That is a conflict. These are the rules we hold ourselves to:
- A disclosure line sits at the top and bottom of every page.
- Medrecords AI is labeled "ours" wherever it appears in a list or table.
- It gets the same columns as every other tool, and the page about it lists the tasks it doesn't do and who should pick something else.
- Links to medrecords.ai appear only on that page and in boxed notes that say when Medrecords AI fits.
- We don't make claims about other products that their own websites or a cited source don't support.
- Vendors can correct their entries by emailing [email protected]. We check the claim on the vendor's site and publish confirmed fixes within 2 business days.
This site doesn't claim to be neutral about its owner. It aims to be useful and fair: 3 of the 7 tasks and most of the tool categories it covers are ones Medrecords AI doesn't sell, and the site says so.
How often facts are rechecked
We recheck prices, trial terms and security statements at least every 45 days. The "Updated" date on each page is the last time its facts were checked.
Questions about how this site is made
Did any vendor pay to be listed?
No. There are no paid placements or affiliate links, and no vendor can pay to be listed or moved.
Why is there no overall ranking?
The tools do different jobs. A scribe, a coding platform and a chronology tool can't share 1 score, so we sort by task and let you test within a task.
Why should I trust a site published by a vendor?
Check it. Every fact has a source link and a date, and the evaluation method works the same on any tool, including ours.