Berta: an open-source, modular tool for AI-enabled clinical documentation
Commercial AI scribes cost \$99-600 per physician per month, operate as opaque systems, and do not return data to institutional infrastructure, limiting organizational control over data governance, quality improvement, and clinical workflows. We developed Berta, an open-source modular scribe platform for AI-enabled clinical documentation, and deployed a customized implementation within Alberta Health Services (AHS) integrated with their existing Snowflake AI Data Cloud infrastructure. The system combines automatic speech recognition with large language models while retaining all clinical data within the secure AHS environment. During eight months (November 2024 to July 2025), 198 emergenc...
| Authors | Samridhi Vaid, Mike Weldon, Jesse Dunn et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 5 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 5 March 2026 |
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