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The Hidden Danger of Perfect-Looking Notes: Why Surface-Level Completeness Isn't Enough
In medicine, uncertainty is normal. Our notes should reflect that. Learn how to reclaim clinical reasoning in documentation — and avoid the dangers of perfect-looking but hollow notes.

The Real Cost of Note Bloat: Clinical Clarity at Risk
Medical documentation is a clinical act, not just a clerical task. Learn why note bloat undermines patient care and how clinicians can rebuild clean, useful, clinically-driven notes through thoughtful, evidence-informed practices.

Our Approach to Clinical Documentation: A Philosophical Shift
At River Records, we believe documentation shouldn’t start from a blank page every time. Clinical care is continuous, and the record should reflect that. In this post, we share the philosophy behind Stream—our AI-powered, problem-oriented documentation platform—and explain why copy-paste behavior is not clinician error, but a system failure begging for a better solution.

Notes Are Deadweight. Clinical Context Is the Future.
For years, the clinical note has been treated as the centerpiece of medical documentation. But in practice, it’s become a relic of a paper-based past—bloated with repetition, slow to navigate, and ill-suited to the way clinicians actually think. At River Records, we’re reimagining documentation not as a series of static notes, but as a living, structured reflection of the patient. By organizing everything around medical problems rather than encounters, Stream gives clinicians the context they need without forcing them to dig through layers of outdated text. The result is faster reviews, clearer updates, and documentation that actually supports care.

5 Steps to Implement AI Scribing in Your Medical Practice
Streamline medical documentation with AI scribing to enhance efficiency and focus on patient care through effective implementation steps.


Rethinking Administrative Time and the EHR in Modern Medicine
The EHR suffers from the tragedy of the commons. Everyone dumps their data with little thought to organization or cleaning up after themselves. We need to buy tools that facilitate information stewardship not data littering.







The Challenges of Information Review in Primary Care
Ideally, clinicians shouldn’t need to search for or surface information at all—because the information should never be lost to begin with. There are several chart review work flows prevalent in primary care, yet EHRs are not built to support them, or the workflows of any clinicians, beyond search and filter.

Stream - The Medical AI Scribe for Longitudinal Care & Value-Based Transformation
Stream is the first medical AI scribe designed for longitudinal care and value based care.

Part 2: Siloed Documentation in a Collaborative World
The clinical note has been a cornerstone of medical documentation for decades. While this structure may have worked in the past, the note paradigm is increasingly out of place in today’s healthcare environment. In this post, we’ll explore how notes — organized around visits and not around problems— create information chaos in healthcare and why we need to move toward a new documentation model.

The Danger of Pre-Templated Information in Medical Records
Templating notes, exams, care plans, and histories can be bad for patient care, even if it's good for clinician efficiency. Clinical documentation ought to accurately reflect the hard work clinicians put into their care. Fortunately, large language models can help build better documentation that is reflective of the vibrancy of the patients they describe.

Part 1: The Note, A Relic of the Paper Era
A brief history of the medical note and how it has come to frustrate clinicians and patients across the world.

Redefining Ambient Clinical Intelligence
Written by: Alex Butler, MD, MS - Pediatrician & Chief of Product

Talk to your Patients, not the Computer
Written by: Abhinav Sharma, MD - Primary Care Physician & CEO