Berta is an open-source, production-proven AI clinical scribe that reduces operating costs by up to 95% compared to commercial alternatives.
March 26, 2026
Original Paper
Berta: an open-source, modular tool for AI-enabled clinical documentation
arXiv · 2603.23513
The Takeaway
It democratizes high-stakes clinical AI by providing a modular, secure framework that has already handled 22,000+ sessions at scale. This allows healthcare systems to maintain data sovereignty while bypassing the high per-physician monthly fees of proprietary incumbents.
From the abstract
Commercial AI scribes cost \$99-600 per physician per month, operate as opaque systems, and do not return data to institutional infrastructure, limiting organizational control over data governance, quality improvement, and clinical workflows. We developed Berta, an open-source modular scribe platform for AI-enabled clinical documentation, and deployed a customized implementation within Alberta Health Services (AHS) integrated with their existing Snowflake AI Data Cloud infrastructure. The system