The Note Still Needed Editing. That's What Every Orthopaedic Physician at AAOE Told Us

The Note Still Needed Editing. That's What Every Orthopaedic Physician at AAOE Told Us
Bhavya SInha
April 25, 2026

Most physicians who stopped at our booth in Louisville had been using an AI scribe for months, sometimes longer. iScribe was the most common tool, a few were on DAX Copilot, and one was on Heidi. They were not new to any of this, which made it more telling when they described the same problem: transcription was fine, but the note still needed work before it was usable, and they were still the ones doing that work.

When a tool is supposed to give you time back and it has not quite done that, the frustration tends to be specific and considered rather than vague. These were not people who had given up on AI documentation. They had lived with its limitations long enough to articulate them clearly, and that made for better conversations than we sometimes get at larger events.

The moment that changed one conversation completely

Hayden Bilzor, the VP of sales at Marvix AI presenting a demo
Hayden Bilzor, the VP of sales at Marvix AI presenting a demo

Most attendees were on Athena. At one point in a demo, we showed the AI Summarizer pulling prior notes, lab reports, imaging, and outside documents from Athena into a structured patient recap before the visit starts, and someone in the group asked whether that included documents scanned into Athena over the years. We showed them it did.

One of them had looked at Heidi recently and mentioned that Heidi does not retrieve prior documents from the EHR at all. We watched that land. For an orthopaedic practice where a returning patient might have years of visit history, imaging reports, and referral documents sitting in Athena, having that surfaced automatically before the physician walks in changes how the morning runs. It is not a minor convenience when you think about how many patients a practice sees in a week.

After that, they asked about letters and custom documents. We showed how Marvix AI picks up a physician's writing style and formatting preferences over time, and that practices can upload their own templates through the file transfer portal so the output looks exactly like theirs. The questions shifted at that point from how the product works to how quickly they could get started.

Why macros kept coming up

Orthopaedic follow-up visits cover similar ground from week to week, with the same exam findings, stable post-op plans, and routine check-ins repeating across a full afternoon of patients.

Macros let a physician trigger pre-built note blocks through natural speech while they are in the room, and Marvix AI picks up the relevant cues from the conversation as it is happening without any special commands or prompts.

Physicians who had been doing demos with us for a few minutes and seemed satisfied would then ask follow-up questions specifically about macros, wanting to understand how far they could push it for their typical visit types. That happened consistently enough across the conference that we noticed it.

Final Thoughts

AAOE draws practice administrators and physicians who came specifically to work through operational problems, and documentation efficiency was on a lot of minds. When someone stops at your booth already knowing what they want to fix and having tried a couple of things that did not fully work, the conversation moves faster and goes further. We came away with a clearer sense of where orthopaedic practices are getting stuck with AI documentation tools, and it lines up closely with what Marvix AI was built to address.

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