Vetinuity and ScribbleVet, compared on what happens in the exam room

ScribbleVet, now part of Instinct, is a well-known note tool. The useful question for a veterinarian is not which product has more features on a list. It is what each one does for you while the client is still in the room. The rows below are the five places where that shows up, with ScribbleVet's side taken from its own public changelog and dated.

Each row is followed by a short section that walks through one ordinary case, so you can judge the difference by what it would mean on your own schedule rather than by how a feature is named. The cases are ordinary on purpose.

Being understood in the room

An owner brings in an itchy dog and speaks Arabic. You do not, and you would not have guessed Arabic from the intake form. Vetinuity detects the language as soon as she starts talking and translates live in both directions, so you can ask about flea control, diet and when the scratching started, and she can ask whether it is contagious to her children, all as a normal back-and-forth.

ScribbleVet documents recording in any language and producing an English note, plus care instructions and emails in Spanish or French. That helps the record and some follow-up. It does not give the owner your explanation, in her language, while you are giving it.

The record comes from that exchange

Vetinuity writes the SOAP note and a client summary from the translated conversation itself. The history the owner gave in Arabic is the history in the record; the plan you explained is the plan in her summary. Nobody reconstructs the visit afterward from memory or a relative's retelling.

And when it is time to go home, the discharge instructions can go in her language too, whatever that language is, rather than being limited to one or two.

Citations across the whole case

ScribbleVet documents differentials from Sofie that come with citations. Vetinuity cites further down the case: differentials, recommended diagnostics and treatment options each carry a journal citation, so the evidence follows you from what it might be to what to do about it.

For the itchy dog, that means the considerations for flea allergy dermatitis, atopic dermatitis and sarcoptic mange come with their sources, and so do the recommended diagnostics, such as skin cytology, skin scrapings and a flea comb, and the treatment options with doses as the articles report them. You decide; the references show why each item is on the list.

The lab result goes in by photo

When the workup includes bloodwork, photograph the panel. The abnormal values go into the record and update the clinical suggestions for the case, from the differentials to the treatment options. Nothing is retyped and nothing waits for someone to reconcile a printout with a chart later.

ScribbleVet's public changelog, checked on the date above, does not document reading a lab panel from a photo.

A board that follows the shift

In Vetinuity, rounds you record at the start of a shift create the patients and build your board. From then on, recordings and lab photos from the exam room keep each patient current through the shift, on a board that is individual to you.

ScribbleVet documents a rounds template that summarizes case rounds into a view of hospitalized patients. Vetinuity's board keeps moving after rounds end, because the exam room feeds it.