Attend Health vs Meelio (2026)
Functional, integrative and longevity practices on Cerbo are the market both vendors are chasing, and they answer it with different kinds of output. Meelio produces the whole visit package in the practice's own clinical framework: a pre visit summary of chart, labs, intake forms and supplements, then the consultation note, care plan, meal plan, lab action list and patient handout, built on encoded protocols, preferred labs and supplement brands. Its open source Skills Library adds clinician written procedures for GI-MAP, DUTCH and similar lab reviews. Attend produces the note, patient instructions and visit summary, and puts its extra effort into coding: suggestions with explanations while charting and an audit of every encounter before billing. Which matters more depends on how the practice is paid. A cash based functional medicine clinic spends its after visit hours on plans and handouts, which is Meelio's ground. A practice that bills insurance for part of its visits gains more from Attend's coding review, which Meelio does not offer. Meelio names its model platform and speech provider, Google Vertex AI and Deepgram; Attend names neither.
- Audits every encounter before billing for incorrectly coded visits and documentation gaps.
- Clinicians can revise a draft by describing the change in plain language.
- Templates built with the practice at onboarding, and clinicians can add their own from an example note.
- Integrates with athenaOne and Elation as well as Cerbo.
- Drafts care plans, meal plans, lab action lists and patient handouts alongside the consultation note.
- Encodes the practice's protocols, reference ranges, preferred labs and supplement brands.
- Open source Skills Library of clinician written lab review procedures, run from a patient chat.
- $79 per seat a month, or $790 a year, after a 14 day free trial.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Attend Health and Meelio are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Attend Health | Meelio |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Ambient Scribes | Ambient Scribes |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | United Kingdom |
| Website | attend.health | meelio.ai |
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Attend pairs an AI scribe with a coding audit. The scribe drafts notes, patient instructions and visit summaries in templates built with the practice, which clinicians can extend by pasting an example note, and the audit reviews every encounter before billing for coding and documentation problems. Attend connects to Cerbo, athenaOne and Elation, deletes audio once transcribed, and quotes each practice for the scribe, the audit or both.
Source: AI Health Index, October 2026
Meelio is an AI documentation and practice platform for functional, integrative, concierge and precision medicine practices, from Meelio AI Ltd in the United Kingdom. It summarizes the chart before the visit and drafts notes, care plans, meal plans, lab action lists and handouts in the practice's own protocols, syncing with Cerbo, Practice Better and Charm Health. Named users include practices in Sarasota and Hollywood, Florida, and West Lebanon, New Hampshire. It runs on Google Cloud, names Google Vertex AI and Deepgram as subprocessors, and costs $79 per seat a month.
Source: AI Health Index, October 2026
Questions buyers ask
Which fits a cash based functional medicine practice better?
Meelio is built around that practice's after visit work, drafting care plans, meal plans, lab action lists and handouts in its own protocols and supplement brands. Attend's distinctive feature, a coding audit of every encounter before billing, matters most where visits are billed to insurance. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified October 11, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which EHRs do Attend and Meelio connect to?
Both connect to Cerbo, reading chart data and writing notes back. Meelio also syncs with Practice Better and Charm Health, and Attend with athenaOne and Elation. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified October 11, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How long does each keep patient data?
Attend deletes audio as soon as it is transcribed and marks unused notes deleted after seven days. Meelio keeps clinical notes and transcriptions for seven years from creation and gives no retention period for audio. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified October 11, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Meelio lists its Clinician plan, and Attend is quoted. Attend's business associate agreement is in its terms, while Meelio says it will sign one without publishing it. Case study figures on both sides are the vendors' own.