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Erez Druk, Founder, FreedHe met his wife, Dr. Gabriela Meckler, just before medical school. Over the next decade, he watched her move through training, COVID-19, residency and into family medicine. He saw the commitment clinicians brought to patients and how documentation and administrative work consumed the time and energy surrounding that care. Three years ago, after closing his first startup, UrbanLeap, watching Meckler and other clinicians struggle with administrative work gave Druk a problem he understood personally and wanted to solve.
That idea became Freed, an AI clinical scribe and workflow platform designed to take administrative work off clinicians’ plates. During patient encounters, it captures conversations, converts speech to text and generates notes clinicians can review and edit. The platform has expanded to clinical evidence, coding support, pre-charting and patient communication and continues evolving to address more of the work that keeps clinicians inside the EHR instead of focused on care.
“Freed is truly a labor of love,” says Druk. “When you truly understand your users, you can build something much more empathetic and useful that really fits their needs.”
Accuracy Is Built in the Details
Creating a useful clinical note involves more than generating text. Before a visit, Freed summarizes the patient’s background and can answer the patient’s questions via AI Chat. It then records the encounter across devices and environments. Speech-to-text models tuned for medical terminology, medication names and speaker differentiation correctly attribute comments from clinician and patient, while context carries forward from note to note.
The next layer is note generation. Freed works to reduce hallucinations, account for specialty requirements and reflect individual documentation preferences.
Making AI Fit the Practice
Freed starts from a simple premise. Clinicians should not have to adapt themselves to software.
This is especially important in independent practices, where fewer people and resources are available to absorb growing administrative demands. Documentation and other operational work can compound burnout, contribute to earlier exits from medicine, and, in some cases, force clinics to close.
From Scribe to Connected Assistant
Druk sees clinical documentation as the starting point rather than the endpoint.
Today, AI tools often operate like separate assistants; one helps write a note, another supports coding, while another handles scheduling or patient communication. Each may improve an individual task, but the context does not always travel between them.
Freed’s longer-term vision is to connect those functions into one workflow. Scheduling information could inform visit preparation, while encounter context could flow into documentation and coding. Follow-up could continue from the same patient history without staff repeatedly moving information between systems.
Administrative work would increasingly run in the background, bringing clinicians and staff in when judgment or a decision is required.
For Druk, the goal remains to remove the work surrounding care so clinicians can devote more of themselves to what only they can do, earning Freed Healthcare Tech Outlook’s Top AI Clinical Scribe Platform 2026 recognition.
Company
Freed
Management
Erez Druk, Founder, Freed
Description
Freed is an AI healthcare platform designed for clinicians and independent practices, combining clinical scribing, documentation, coding, clinical decision support, pre-charting, scheduling, patient communication, and Front Desk automation.