Medow Health Emerges as Australia’s Specialist-Focused AI Medical Scribe
Australian healthtech startup Medow Health is positioning itself as one of the first AI medical scribe platforms built specifically for specialists, offering automated clinical documentation designed to reduce the heavy administrative burden that has long affected specialist practices across the country. With deep integrations into leading specialist EMRs Genie & Gentu and support for more than 50 medical specialties, Medow Health is targeting a part of healthcare where documentation has historically been both complex and time-consuming.
Founded in 2023 by Joel and Josh Freiberg, Medow Health was born out of a deeply personal understanding of the documentation pressures faced by specialists. Growing up, the brothers watched their father, a respiratory physician, spend hours each night dictating reports and finishing paperwork after long clinical days. This experience, as both a familial observation and a systemic inefficiency, sparked the idea for Medow: a purpose-built AI medical scribe that understands the nuances, terminology and workflows of specialist care.
A Specialist-First Approach to AI Clinical Documentation
While AI scribes have been gaining traction globally, most existing solutions are designed for general practitioners or primary care environments. Specialists operate very differently: their consultations are often complex, highly technical and vary dramatically across fields such as dermatology, cardiology, orthopedics, endocrinology and oncology.
Medow Health was designed with this complexity in mind.
According to the company, its AI scribe is optimized for 50+ specialties, enabling it to automatically generate context-rich clinical notes and letters that reflect the specific structure and language used by specialist clinicians. The company emphasizes that its models are trained for the “local market’s medical context,” reflecting Australian workflows, terminology and documentation standards.
This specialist-first approach is Medow’s core differentiation and the reason many practices that struggled with generic AI scribes are now exploring specialist-tailored solutions.
Integrated Into Leading Specialist EMRs: Genie & Gentu
One of Medow Health’s strategic strengths is its integration into Australia’s two largest specialist EMR platforms: Genie and Gentu. These EMRs are widely used by private specialists nationwide, making integration critical for seamless workflow adoption.
This allows Medow’s AI scribe to sit directly inside the systems specialists already use every day, eliminating the friction of learning new tools or switching platforms. Medow’s documentation outputs flow into the specialist’s existing EMR workflow, supporting clinical notes, referral and follow-up letters, case summaries and structured documentation where required.
By embedding AI directly into EMR workflows, Medow aims to reduce context switching and accelerate specialist adoption which is a significant challenge for new healthtech tools entering the medical environment.
Built From Real Clinical Experience and Technical Expertise
Medow Health is built by a team of healthcare professionals, data scientists and engineers, including founders with backgrounds in both technology and close proximity to specialist care. This combination of clinical insight and technical capability has shaped Medow health’s design philosophy: AI should support specialists by understanding their work, not forcing them to adapt to generic templates or rigid workflows. The company highlights that its models adapt to:
- Specialty-specific note structures
- Unique diagnostic terminology
- Differences between procedural and non-procedural specialties
- Variations in consultation style
- Localised medical idioms and shorthand used in Australia
This level of specificity, Medow argues, is essential for specialist documentation where accuracy, precision and context can significantly affect clinical decisions.
Helping Specialists Reclaim Time and Reduce Burnout
Specialists often face some of the longest documentation hours in healthcare. Many see dozens of patients each day and ends-of-day “paperwork sessions” have become normalized. For procedural specialists, documentation can be even more burdensome, with requirements for detailed operative notes, procedural reports and follow-up documentation. Medow Health’s goal is to reverse this trend.
By automating note generation and letter creation, the platform aims to:
- Reduce after-hours dictation
- Improve clinical workflow efficiency
- Decrease administrative fatigue and burnout
- Support higher patient throughput
- Return time back to clinicians for patient care and personal life
The company says its early users have reported meaningful reductions in documentation time and improved consistency in clinical notes.
Supporting 50+ Specialties and Expanding Across Australia
Medow Health publicly lists a wide range of specialties it supports, including cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, pediatrics, rheumatology, urology and many more. Its roadmap includes further expansion into ultra-specialised clinical fields, reflecting its ambition to become a central AI infrastructure layer for specialist practices.
With growing interest from Australian specialists seeking AI-enabled workflow improvements and deeper EMR integrations, Medow Health is positioning itself as an early mover in a space that global competitors have yet to fully address.
A New Chapter in Australia’s Specialist Healthtech Ecosystem
As global investment in AI scribes accelerates, Australia’s specialist health sector has been slower to adopt AI compared to primary care. Medow Health’s emergence signifies a shift: specialist practices, long underserved by generic tools, are now gaining access to AI built specifically for their workflows.
By focusing solely on specialist-grade documentation, embedding directly into major EMRs and grounding its mission in personal clinical experience, Medow Health has carved out a distinctive position in Australia’s rapidly evolving AI healthtech landscape.
Medow Health enters a market where generic AI scribes often fall short for specialist workflows, and its specialist-first approach is both timely and strategically sound. Integrating directly into leading EMRs like Genie and Gentu gives it a practical advantage that many healthtech startups lack.
However, the true test will be sustaining accuracy and reliability across 50+ specialties, each with unique documentation requirements and clinical nuances. If Medow Health can maintain clinical-grade precision at scale while expanding to more specialties and markets, it has the potential to become a foundational AI layer for the specialist ecosystem in Australia.