We started where the documentation problem is worst
Hospital systems get most of the attention in healthcare technology. We built Scribemarrow for the 220,000 independent outpatient practices in the US, where documentation burden per provider is highest and vendor support is thinnest.
Why we started with outpatient clinics
The first version of Scribemarrow came out of a conversation between David Okafor and a family physician he knew in East Nashville. The physician was spending two hours every evening after clinic finishing chart notes that had piled up during the day. Not because she was slow. Because the documentation load for a 20-patient clinic day genuinely requires more time than a clinic day allows.
The tools that existed either required a human scribe in the room, produced output that needed so much editing it wasn't saving time, or were built for hospital workflows that don't match how outpatient visits actually run. Scribemarrow was built specifically for outpatient medicine: shorter visits, higher volume, more variety of chief complaints, and independent practices that don't have large IT departments.
We're bootstrapped, based in Nashville, and focused entirely on this problem for this market. We're not trying to build a platform for everything in healthcare. We're trying to make the documentation part of primary care and internal medicine significantly less painful than it is today.
The team building Scribemarrow
David Okafor
CEO and Co-Founder
David has worked in healthcare operations and practice management for eight years before founding Scribemarrow. He built the original product prototype with Priya after spending months observing clinical workflows at outpatient practices in Middle Tennessee.
Priya Nandakumar
CTO and Co-Founder
Priya leads engineering and clinical AI model development at Scribemarrow. Her background is in natural language processing and clinical informatics. She previously worked on medical NLP research at a university health system before joining the founding team.
Marcus Webb
Head of Clinical Operations
Marcus manages practice onboarding, clinical workflow integration, and the early-access program at Scribemarrow. He spent six years working in practice management at multi-provider outpatient groups before bringing that experience to the Scribemarrow team.
How we think about building clinical software
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The physician reviews and signs
Every Scribemarrow note is reviewed by the treating physician before it is finalized. We are a documentation assistant, not an autonomous decision maker. The physician is always in the loop.
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Minimum necessary data
We handle the minimum data necessary to generate the note. Audio is processed and discarded. Notes go to your EHR. We don't build data assets from patient visits.
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Built for independent practices
We build for practices that don't have large IT departments, can't wait eight months for implementation, and need something that works the first week. Simplicity is a feature.
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Honest about what it does
We don't claim Scribemarrow eliminates all documentation work. It reduces it significantly. Physicians will still review and edit notes. What it eliminates is the two hours at the end of the day.
Join the early-access program
We're working directly with independent practices in family medicine and internal medicine. Onboarding takes less than 30 minutes.