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DeepScribe is built around specialty documentation. palmER is built around your ED shift.
From the first workup to the last discharge, palmER puts MDM writing, clinical answers, consult preparation, and chart review in your hands. Built by emergency physicians. Ready for your next shift.
DeepScribe is built around specialty documentation.
DeepScribe centers on oncology and specialty documentation. Emergency and urgent care are also supported, but public access is sales-led.
palmER is built around your ED shift.
Keep multiple workups moving. Turn your chart into an EM-native MDM, get clinical answers, prepare consult calls, and review the chart before you sign. palmER also spots documentation needs for critical care, procedures, and sepsis and drafts the supporting notes. Finish with discharge instructions, work notes, and school notes. All in one subscription.
You signed one note. What else still exists?
DeepScribe describes retention as necessary for the purpose or law, and its terms allow continued use of de-identified data after the term. palmER never stores ambient audio and deletes patient data within 24 hours.
Your signed note belongs in your EHR. The drafts, transcripts, and questions that helped you get there don't need a permanent home in your AI tool. With palmER, they expire automatically.
What the public documents say.
DeepScribe's Privacy Policy uses open-ended retention language, including retention as long as necessary and possible retention beyond the customer relationship. Its Terms permit Customer Data use for service operation and improvement, AI or ML applications, and retention or use of de-identified data during and after the term. No fixed public artifact deletion window was found.
Help on shift. Patient data gone within 24 hours.
Audio is never stored. Transcripts, drafts, edits, and questions automatically delete within 24 hours. Patient data is never used to train AI models.
palmER and DeepScribe compared.
DeepScribe documents ambient capture, structured notes, and EHR synchronization.
Ambient Scribe auto-generates HPI and Physical Exam from live encounters and adds the results, plans, consults, reassessments, and disposition discussed to the MDM, where they can be edited anytime; audio is transcribed and immediately discarded.
Structured specialty notes are described; dedicated HPI and Physical Exam generation is not separately described.
Dedicated HPI and Physical Exam Assistants with complaint-specific positives and negatives.
DeepScribe documents native two-way integrations including iKnowMed, OncoEMR, and Epic; Terms say standalone service is the default unless an order form specifies integration.
Works alongside any EMR without requiring an integration.
No public price was found; customer and order-form terms govern access.
$199/month for clinicians. Approved students and residents pay $49/month after verification. Both include unlimited access to every tool.
No public self-serve trial terms were found; public access is customer or order-form oriented.
Every tool free for 30 days. No credit card and no automatic billing.
The current Help Center lists Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Urgent Care, but public marketing pages reviewed remain oncology and complex-specialty focused.
Built specifically for emergency medicine and urgent care by emergency physicians.
Oncology and complex specialty care are the primary focus.
Emergency and urgent care medicine.
Public materials emphasize ambient documentation, SmartPrep, AI Coding, and Assist; ED-specific MDM structure is not described.
Writes a structured MDM from the chart and the clinical details captured by Ambient Scribe: differential, data reviewed, risk, clinical reasoning, and disposition.
A dedicated pasted-chart-to-ED-MDM workflow was not established in the reviewed pages.
Paste your chart to draft an EM-native MDM in seconds. Review and update it as the encounter progresses.
DeepScribe Assist and pre-visit intelligence are named, but an ED differential generator is not described.
Most Serious and Most Likely differential panels generate alongside the MDM.
No multi-patient ED shift tracking surface is described.
Tracks active and completed patients as multiple workups progress throughout the shift.
Synced schedules and EHR embedding are described, but a unified chart view is not established.
Unified Chart View renders HPI, Exam, and MDM together for review and refinement.
SmartPrep and DeepScribe Assist are described as pre-visit or point-of-care intelligence; their ED context workflow is not described.
Ask clinical questions with the case in context. palmER also spots documentation needs for critical care, procedures, and sepsis and drafts the supporting notes.
A dedicated specialty consult-call script is not described.
ConsultER generates structured specialty consult scripts.
AI Coding covers E/M, ICD-10, and HCC coding; a whole-chart review is not described.
Reviews the chart for missing or incomplete documentation before you sign.
An integrated emergency-medicine reference product is not described.
Integrated palmEM AI knowledge base for instant EM clinical reference.
No fixed public audio, transcript, note, or input window is stated. Privacy describes retention as long as necessary, and Terms permit AI or ML use and continued use of de-identified data during and after the term.
Encounter audio is not stored. Patient data automatically deletes within 24 hours and is not used to train AI models.
Less charting. More shift handled.
Put your chart to work: draft the MDM, prepare the consult, check for documentation gaps, and send the patient home with clear instructions. palmER brings those jobs together with clinical answers and multiple active workups, wherever you practice.
Start yourself, beside your current EMR. Try every tool free for 30 days, then $199/month for unlimited access. No credit card to start and no automatic billing.
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Asked often. Answered plainly.
Is palmER a good DeepScribe alternative?+
Yes. palmER was built for emergency and urgent care clinicians who want help with their entire shift: EM-native MDM, multiple active workups, clinical answers, consult preparation, chart review, and discharge documents. You can start yourself, use it beside any EMR, and try every tool free for 30 days.
How does DeepScribe fit emergency medicine?+
DeepScribe supports emergency medicine as one of multiple specialties; it is not exclusively positioned for the ED. palmER was built specifically for emergency medicine and urgent care.
Does DeepScribe offer a public free trial?+
No public self-serve trial terms were found. palmER offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required.
What does DeepScribe cost?+
DeepScribe does not publish a price on the reviewed pages; access starts with contacting sales. palmER is $199/month for unlimited access to every tool. Approved students and residents pay $49/month after verification. The full-access 30-day trial requires no credit card and ends without automatic billing.
What does DeepScribe retain after an encounter?+
DeepScribe's Privacy Policy uses open-ended retention language, including retention as long as necessary and possible retention beyond the customer relationship. Its Terms permit Customer Data use for service operation and improvement, AI or ML applications, and retention or use of de-identified data during and after the term. No fixed public artifact deletion window was found. palmER never stores encounter audio, automatically deletes patient data within 24 hours, and uses AI providers under zero-retention agreements.
How does palmER compare on MDM?+
Paste your chart and palmER builds a structured ED MDM, including clinical reasoning, differential, data reviewed, risk, and disposition. You do not need to write out the reasoning first. palmER also uses the results, plans, consults, reassessments, and disposition you discuss during ambient scribing, and updates an existing MDM when you discuss something new. A dedicated ED MDM workflow was not established in the DeepScribe sources reviewed. With palmER, chart review, clinical answers, consult preparation, and discharge tools are included in the same subscription.
What about EHR integration?+
DeepScribe documents native two-way integrations including iKnowMed, OncoEMR, and Epic. Its Terms say standalone service is the default unless an Order Form specifies an EHR integration. palmER works alongside any EMR without requiring an integration. You review the documentation and copy the final version into the chart.
Every claim about DeepScribe on this page is grounded in the vendor's own public materials, linked below. Claims about palmER come from palm-er.com.
- DeepScribe homepage ↗
DeepScribe centers on oncology and specialty documentation. Emergency and urgent care are also supported, but public access is sales-led.
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- DeepScribe AI Medical Scribe ↗
Ambient recording and analysis, structured specialty notes, SmartPrep, AI Coding, customization, and EHR synchronization.
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- DeepScribe specialties ↗
Public specialty page highlights Oncology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Orthopedics, and Urology.
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- DeepScribe Help Center specialty list ↗
Selectable specialties include Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Urgent Care.
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- DeepScribe EHR integrations ↗
Native two-way integrations and named iKnowMed, OncoEMR, and Epic workflows.
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- DeepScribe Terms ↗
Standalone service is default unless an Order Form specifies integration; Terms permit AI or ML use of Customer Data and retention or use of de-identified data during and after the term.
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- DeepScribe Privacy Policy ↗
Retention is described as long as necessary for the purpose or law, with possible retention beyond the customer relationship and no fixed public artifact window.
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Start with your next patient: scribe the encounter or paste your chart, generate the MDM, and prepare the discharge. Get every palmER tool free for 30 days. Then $199/month. No credit card to start and no automatic billing.