What is the best AI scribe for physical therapy?
There is no single best AI scribe for physical therapy; the right one is the one that documents like a PT (range of motion in degrees, timed-code minutes, goals tied to a plan of care) and puts the finished note in your chart, not in a separate app. You are choosing between three classes: general-purpose scribes such as Freed, PT-specific standalone tools such as ScribePT, and scribes built into the EHR itself, such as Raintree's ScribeIQ and Orion's Aurora. Standalone tools add a second subscription and usually leave a copy-paste step into the chart. Aurora is included in both Orion plans and drafts a PT-specific SOAP note inside the visit, ready for the treating therapist to review and sign.
Every scribe demo transcript looks great. The differences show up in the objective section of a PT note: did the shoulder flexion measurement come back as “140 degrees,” or as “improved mobility” in a paragraph? A scribe built for physicians writes a tidy narrative that bills badly, no MMT grades, no unit math on timed codes, no goals tied to the plan of care. So test with a dummy initial eval, not the vendor’s sample visit.
Then ask where the note lands. ScribePT is built for PT, OT, and SLP, and its own site describes the last step of the workflow as “copy and paste to EMR.” Freed reserves EHR push integration for its top Premier plan; on the lower tiers, the paste step is yours. Raintree’s ScribeIQ is “built directly into the Raintree EMR,” which solves the landing problem if Raintree is your system. The pattern holds: the closer the scribe lives to the chart, the fewer 6:40pm pasting sessions your therapists inherit.
Aurora takes the built-in model all the way. It is included in both Orion plans, with no note caps and no integration tier, and the draft appears inside the visit it belongs to; the treating therapist reviews, edits, and signs without leaving the chart. The full evaluation checklist (BAA, pricing math, retention terms) lives in our guide to choosing an AI scribe for your PT practice. And a Test Drive lets your team run that dummy eval through Aurora themselves.
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