The AI scribe that
also keeps the chart.
Most AI scribes do one job: they turn your recording into a note. Cognivolt is an AI scribe with clinical decision support and the patient record built in, starting at $39 a month ($33 billed annually). Here is the full picture: the short version first, then exactly how it scribes, then everything a plain scribe was never built to do.
Why Cognivolt, in six points
A better scribe
Press record and get your note minutes later, checked before you see it, from $39 a month ($33 billed annually). Only want the note? Switch off any decision support feature on your Dashboard and it is never generated, so the note comes back sooner.
A chart for every patient
Every visit builds the patient’s record as you document: allergies, diagnoses with ICD-10 codes, medications, risk and, for mental health, a mood score charted visit by visit. Searchable, on every plan, with rating-scale trends on Standard.
Checked before you see it
Independent checks on every dose, measurement and scale score, then a final audit agent. Nothing is final until you approve it.
You decide
Differential considerations to weigh; codes, guidelines, psychoeducation and rating scales only after you confirm the diagnosis.
Safety checks that are not guesses
Allergy and drug interaction checks from fixed, versioned reference tables, not the AI (Standard).
Any specialty, any language
All specialties, notes in most languages, data stored in the EU and a BAA on every plan.
Five ways to get a session in, not just one
Most scribes assume every visit is a live recording. Real practices aren't that tidy, so Cognivolt gives you five ways in, and you pick whichever fits the visit in front of you.
Record live
In the room, or both sides of a video consultation.
Dictate
Just you, speaking the note directly.
Upload audio
A recording you already have.
Type notes
Write it up without audio.
Photos
Documents, labs and referral letters.
Dictation in particular is its own lightweight mode, built for when you just want to speak the note yourself with nobody else in the room. A plain scribe usually assumes there's always a patient to record.
First, judged purely as a scribe
Before anything else, this has to write a note as well as, or better than, a tool that does nothing but write notes.
| What you need | A plain AI scribe | Cognivolt |
|---|---|---|
| A second pass that checks the AI’s own work | Not built in; the first draft is the final draft | Independent checks on every dose, measurement and scale score, then a final audit agent reviews the note, MSE and differential before you ever see them |
| Your own note formats | Usually fixed templates you can't rebuild | Describe the format you want in a sentence and it builds the sections, while everything else (coding, interaction checks, the audit pass) still runs on top |
| Referral letters, discharge summaries, certificates | Not built in | Save a document template once, then generate it from the approved note in one click, any time after the visit |
| Note and mental state exam structure | Often one long paragraph | Broken out heading by heading, the way you actually chart |
| Working in your own language | Often fewer languages, or the note only in English | Understands whatever language was spoken, and writes the note in it or in another language you choose |
| A consultation running long | Lower tiers often cap how long a single recording can run | No consultation-length limit, on every plan including the lowest tier |
Then it does what a scribe was never built to do
A mental state exam and a risk assessment aren't a better note format. They're a different kind of output entirely, one a transcription tool has no reason to attempt.
| What you need | A plain AI scribe | Cognivolt |
|---|---|---|
| Mental state examination | Not produced at all | A structured MSE, generated alongside the note |
| Risk assessment | Not produced at all | A risk-level judgment (low, moderate, high) drawn from what was actually discussed, flagged for a closer look |
| Suicidality and red-flag detection | Not produced at all | Called out on its own, separate from the general risk level, so it can't get buried in a paragraph |
Decision support that never decides for you
Differential considerations help you weigh the possibilities. Coding, guidelines, rating scales and psychoeducation unlock the moment, and only the moment, you confirm the diagnosis yourself. Never before.
| What you need | A plain AI scribe | Cognivolt |
|---|---|---|
| Differential diagnosis considerations | Not built in | Evidence-backed alternatives for you to weigh before you confirm, offered as considerations, never as a diagnosis |
| ICD-10 / CPT coding | Usually generated first, and you correct it after | Generated only after you confirm the diagnosis, never before: primary and supporting ICD-10, plus a visit code phrased at the complexity actually documented, new or established patient |
| Psychotherapy add-on codes (+90833 / +90836 / +90838) | Not built in; you get the visit code and the add-on is left to the biller | Suggested for you, with the psychotherapy time read off the session itself. No stopwatch, no box to fill in. The code comes from a fixed time table, never from the model |
| Coding outside the United States | CPT, wherever the doctor actually is | The system your own payers require (OPCS-4, MBS, EBM/GOÄ, CCI, and CPT where it is genuinely mandated abroad as in the UAE and Saudi Arabia), named on every code, and left empty rather than invented where a country has no standardised system |
| HCC / risk adjustment | Not built in | A note on which HCC categories this encounter’s documentation would actually support, or a plain statement that none were triggered |
| Clinical guidelines & patient psychoeducation | Not built in | Generated for the confirmed diagnosis, ready to hand to the patient |
| Validated rating scales (PHQ-9, GAD-7, and more) | Not built in | 28 validated scales, filled from the visit once you confirm the diagnosis, scored and trended over time (Standard), spanning psychiatry, cardiology, pulmonology and more |
A full EMR, not a folder of past notes
This is the part that isn't a feature you can bolt onto a scribe later. It needs somewhere the patient's history actually lives between visits.
| What you need | A plain AI scribe | Cognivolt |
|---|---|---|
| Answering "who opened this patient’s record?" | A log you cannot read, if there is one at all | An Audit Log page in the sidebar: every open, edit, export and share, filterable to one patient, kept six years |
| Allergy check against what you just prescribed | Not built in | Checked automatically, every session |
| Drug-drug interaction check | Not built in | Checked against fixed, versioned reference tables, not an AI guess |
| What changed since the last visit | No visit history to compare against | Longitudinal insights flag what’s different from last time |
| Follow-up scheduling | Not built in | Built in: book the next visit without leaving the chart |
| Bringing in your existing patient data | Nowhere to bring it into | Import existing records; export to FHIR whenever you need to |
| Patient access to their own record | Not built in | A patient portal where patients can see their own visits |
| Spotting side-effect patterns across your patients | Can’t, because there’s no patient database behind it | Surfaces emerging side-effect signals across de-identified data |
| More than one doctor in the same practice | Built for one user at a time | A shared practice chart: every doctor sees the same patient record |
| A real medical record number | Often no MRN system at all, or one that can collide | A hospital-grade sequential MRN, generated so two patients can never end up with the same one, even registered at the same instant |
| Lab results | Nowhere to file them | Filed directly into the chart, by hand or straight from a lab's system via FHIR |
What leaves your practice, and how it looks
Every export is a choice, not a fixed template, including whether your credentials print automatically.
| What you need | A plain AI scribe | Cognivolt |
|---|---|---|
| What actually leaves your practice | Usually one fixed export shape | Choose per export: a Full Report (note, diagnosis, differentials, risk, coding, guidelines) or a lighter Notes-only document |
| Letterhead & credentials | Not built in; you add them by hand each time | Set your credentials once in Settings; every exported note and report carries them automatically from then on |
| Confirming a prescription is genuine | Not built in | Every prescription carries a code anyone can check on a public page. It confirms the prescriber and practice that issued it, with no patient data exposed |
| Getting the note into an EHR you already use | Copy-paste by hand, or a narrow single-EHR integration | The Super Extension fills any browser-based EHR you already have open in one click, on every plan, with no migration required |
The part a hospital's IT team actually asks about
A single-doctor scribe rarely gets asked these questions. A practice deciding whether to trust a system with real patient records does, and the honest answer matters more than the note quality.
| What you need | A plain AI scribe | Cognivolt |
|---|---|---|
| Patient record encryption | Varies by product, rarely disclosed in detail | Patient records encrypted at rest |
| Compliance posture | Often a self-declared claim with little to check | HIPAA-eligible infrastructure with a BAA on every plan, SOC 2 ready, GDPR compliant with a DPA at signup |
| One practice's data staying out of another's | Single-user tools rarely have this to test in the first place | Explicitly built and verified so one practice's records can never leak into another's |
| Who opened what, provable later | A log you cannot read, if one exists at all | 60+ instrumented access points feeding one audit log, kept six years, immutable: the application itself cannot edit or delete an entry |
We're not naming a specific product on this page on purpose. This is about what a note-only tool structurally can and can't do, not about any one company's roadmap.
Frequently asked questions
Why choose Cognivolt over a regular AI scribe?
A regular AI scribe writes the note and stops. Cognivolt is an AI scribe with clinical decision support and the patient record built in, from $39 a month ($33 billed annually): every note is checked before you see it, differential considerations help you decide, prescribing checks come from fixed tables, and every visit builds the patient's chart.
Why can’t a scribe just add these features later?
Some of it, like templates and formatting, is just a matter of building it. But longitudinal insights, follow-up tracking and spotting a side-effect pattern across your patients all need somewhere the patient’s history lives between visits. A scribe hands you a document and its job ends there; Cognivolt’s note is one output of a record that already holds the rest of the story.
Will Cognivolt code a diagnosis I didn’t confirm?
No. Differential considerations are offered for you to weigh, but nothing downstream of a diagnosis (no ICD-10 or CPT code, no guideline, no psychoeducation, no rating scale) is generated until you confirm the diagnosis yourself.
What if I run a practice with more than one doctor?
A patient seen by two doctors in the same practice is still one patient. Practices share one chart, so the second doctor sees the first doctor’s notes, allergies and history instead of starting from nothing.
Doesn’t all of this mean more complexity, or a higher price?
No. Recording works like a focused scribe: press record, talk, and get your note in your format minutes later. Everything else sits behind its own screen until you use it. And it starts at $39 a month ($33 billed annually).
You're not shouting into a support queue
Cognivolt has an in-app Feedback button, and it doesn't go into a black hole.
Straight to the founder
Feedback sent from inside the app reaches Cognivolt’s founder directly, not a support ticket that sits in a queue for a week.
Ask for what you actually need
Want a feature that is not there yet, or found a bug? Report it from wherever you are in the app.
Grows with your practice
Cognivolt scales into a multi-doctor practice with roles and a shared chart, without touching a doctor’s own patients when they join.
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