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Calculate how much time and money your providers spend on clinical documentation — and see how AI ambient scribing can reduce EHR note time by 70% to reclaim hours for patient care.
Studies consistently show that physicians spend 1 to 2 hours on EHR documentation for every hour of direct patient care. For a provider seeing 20 patients per day at 15 minutes of documentation each, that adds up to 5 hours daily — over 60% of an 8-hour workday. This calculator uses your actual patient volume and documentation time to estimate the true burden on your team.
AI ambient scribing uses natural language processing to listen to patient-provider conversations in real time and automatically generate structured clinical notes, including HPI, assessment, and plan sections formatted for your EHR. Providers review and sign off on the draft rather than writing from scratch. Leading solutions reduce documentation time by 60-80%, with 70% being a conservative average used in this calculator.
The calculator multiplies your patients per day by minutes spent documenting per patient to get daily documentation hours per provider. It then scales across all providers and 22 workdays per month. The cost is derived from the provider salary converted to an effective hourly rate. AI savings assume a 70% reduction in per-patient documentation time, and the reclaimed hours and dollar savings reflect the difference between manual and AI-assisted workflows.
Reputable AI ambient scribing vendors are fully HIPAA compliant. They sign Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), encrypt audio and note data both in transit and at rest, and do not use patient data to train models. Look for vendors with SOC 2 Type II certification, on-premise or private-cloud deployment options, and transparent data retention policies. Always verify compliance documentation before deploying any AI tool in a clinical setting.