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A maintained tracker of the UK regulatory status of the main AI scribe and ambient voice tools: regime (UKCA or EU MDR), class, certifying body, scope and date, plus what each clas...

With TORTUS reaching UKCA Class IIa and Tandem reaching EU MDR Class IIa, is device-grade certification becoming the expected bar for AI scribes rather than a differentiator? The f...

For an NHS Trust, a Class IIa AI scribe means an independent body has assessed the product for a higher-risk intended purpose, shifting part of the clinical-safety assurance extern...

TORTUS and Tandem both claim a first Class IIa certification, and both are right. They were certified under different regimes: TORTUS under the UK's UKCA regime, Tandem under EU MD...

On 24 June 2026, TORTUS became the first ambient voice technology certified UKCA Class IIa, assessed by Scarlet (UK Approved Body 8536). What the jump from self-declared Class I to...

We built iatroX Rounds, a daily diagnosis game for doctors and students. The aggregate, anonymised guess data reveals patterns in how clinicians reason: the hardest cases, the most...

Doctors train diagnostic pattern recognition by seeing many cases with feedback, building illness scripts, and practising retrieval. How experienced clinicians develop fast recogni...

A roundup of free tools to practise medical diagnosis and pattern recognition, from daily diagnosis games to free question banks. What each offers and how to combine them to build ...

The best way to practise clinical diagnosis online is daily, case-based reasoning combined with a structured question bank. Why this works, the free tools that make it easy, and ho...

A daily question habit beats marathon study sessions because it spaces learning, keeps cognitive load manageable, and is sustainable over months. Why little and often wins, and how...

Bloom's 2 sigma problem describes the large gap between one-to-one tutoring and conventional teaching. Can AI tutoring deliver personalised learning at scale and close some of that...

Active recall means retrieving knowledge from memory rather than re-reading it, and it is one of the most effective ways to learn clinical medicine. What it is, why it works for cl...