SPRY Agentic Scribe — Your Questions, Answered

Answers to common questions from clinics evaluating SPRY Agentic Scribe.

What It Is

Is SPRY ambient AI or agentic AI?

Both, in sequence. The Scribe listens during the session, that's the ambient step. Once the session ends and the first draft is generated, it moves into agentic mode where you can interact with the note directly in plain language: edit sections, fix fields, ask it to explain its reasoning. It's not one or the other.

How is this different from other AI scribes?

Most AI scribes are transcription tools. They listen, convert speech to text, and produce a SOAP narrative you then copy into your EMR. SPRY Agentic Scribe populates your actual SPRY form fields directly, no copy-paste, no handoff. It also carries your patient's full longitudinal history, learns your documentation style over time, takes real-time instructions, and catches inconsistencies before you sign.

What does "agentic" actually mean? Is it a real difference or just marketing?

Agentic means the AI takes action, not just suggestions. A passive scribe listens and produces a draft. SPRY Agentic Scribe edits specific fields when you instruct it in plain language, applies your documentation preferences automatically, loads your patient's full visit history before you begin, and flags inconsistencies before you sign. This is a fundamentally different approach from transcription-based scribes — built to support clinical reasoning, not just capture conversations.

How It Works

What is conversational editing?

After the initial draft is generated, you instruct the Scribe in plain language. "Add hip strength MMT to the objective section." "Update the assessment to reflect that the patient is progressing toward short-term goals." It edits the note in real time. You don't have to find the field manually or retype content.

What is Rolling Patient Progress Memory?

The Scribe maintains a running encounter history per patient: Subjective, Objective, and Assessment from each visit, organized by date. When you start a new note, that history is loaded automatically. You can also ask the agent directly: "Give me a summary of where this patient is in their treatment." If a patient sees multiple therapists in your organization, that history is shared so continuity is maintained.

Does it document exercises from verbal instructions during the session?

The Scribe captures the full session conversation, so exercise instructions discussed during the visit are reflected in the documentation.
Structured exercise outputs and standardized formatting may vary depending on workflow and are being further enhanced.

What is Therapist Memory?

The Scribe builds a personalized documentation model for each clinician, learning your formatting preferences, default values, documentation tone, and field-level habits. These are stored and applied automatically on every future session without you restating them. You control it fully: you can review, edit, or clear stored preferences at any time. Therapist Memory stores preferences only, never patient data.

Can it auto-track ROM and MMT progression across visits?

SPRY captures and structures objective measures like ROM and MMT within documentation, and surfaces prior values to support comparison across visits.
Progress tracking is visible within the patient’s documentation and history, helping clinicians assess changes over time.

Can I ask the Scribe to review a note for compliance issues before I sign?

Yes. You can ask the agent to review the note and flag anything inconsistent or incomplete. It also catches issues proactively, like a body part mismatch between the session transcript and the case subcategory, before you sign.

Multi-Specialty, Multi-Location, Multi-Patient

We're a multi-specialty clinic. Does the agent store a separate memory per specialty?

Currently, memory is stored at the provider level and provider-plus-patient level. Keeping provider-plus-specialty memory separate so preferences don't carry across specialties is an active roadmap item.

How does it work when a clinician is seeing multiple patients simultaneously?

“SPRY is designed for real clinic workflows, including scenarios where clinicians may be managing more than one patient.
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The Scribe remains tied to the active patient context within the session, and documentation is generated per patient to avoid cross-over.
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We recommend validating workflows based on clinic setup to ensure optimal use.

Does it work in a busy, noisy clinic?

A lapel microphone, the SPRY Mobile App on your phone, or noise-canceling headphones like AirPods are recommended in high-noise settings.

Language and special population

How well does it work for sessions conducted in Spanish?

SPRY supports a range of accents and speech patterns commonly seen in clinical settings.
While the Scribe is optimized for English today, it can capture multilingual conversations to an extent. Accuracy may vary based on language mix and clarity, and continued improvements are underway.

Can I turn off the Scribe for sessions where speech recognition won't work well?

Yes. The Scribe can be turned off for any session, giving clinicians full control over when and how it is used.

Does the Scribe separate the patient's voice from the clinician's?

Yes, the Scribe separates clinician and patient during transcription. For patients with significantly altered speech, aphasia, dysarthria, ALS, transcription accuracy will vary, as with any speech recognition system. In those cases, the Scribe can still document the clinician's side of the session, and conversational editing lets you fill in or correct the patient-side content after.

If we have a live interpreter in the session, how does the Scribe handle that?

The Scribe recognizes multiple speakers and accurately separates patient versus non-patient content.

EMR and integration

Does SPRY Agentic Scribe work on top of our current EMR?

SPRY Agentic Scribe is native to the SPRY platform. It populates actual SPRY form fields directly, which is why there's no copy-paste or handoff. It's not an add-on to another EMR. If your clinic is currently on a different system, the conversation starts with whether SPRY is the right fit as your outpatient rehab EMR.

Do I need a separate app?

The Scribe is natively built into SPRY’s EMR, meaning documentation, billing, and compliance workflows are directly connected — not layered through third-party tools.

Privacy and Security

Is SPRY HIPAA-compliant?

All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and access is controlled through role-based permissions within the platform.

Does Therapist Memory store patient data?

No. It stores only your documentation preferences, formatting habits, default values, clinical style. No patient facts, no PHI.

Billing and compliance

How does payer-side AI review affect notes the Scribe generates?

Payers are increasingly using AI to review notes at scale, looking at structured fields and clinical language, not just the presence of a note. SPRY Agentic Scribe populates structured fields, flags internal inconsistencies before signing, and generates documentation that reflects actual clinical reasoning from the session.

Access

How do I get access?

Reach out to your account manager or visit sprypt.com/agentic-scribe.

Can I speak with a clinic that's using it today?

Yes. We have clinic owners and clinical directors on record and willing to talk. Ask your SPRY contact to make the connection.