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How AI doctor’s notes are reducing burnout among providers

AI medical scribes capture natural provider-patient conversations and generate structured clinical notes in real time.

Last updated on 06/10/2025
AI doctor's notes give providers time back in the day

At a Glance

  • AI scribes cut documentation time, reducing physician burnout.
  • Ambient AI captures conversations for notes, boosting patient focus.
  • Tebra’s AI Note Assist helps providers reclaim hours of their day, improve patient engagement, and restore provider satisfaction.

Physician burnout has been a long-standing issue, but it’s far from solved. Self-reported cases dipped slightly from 49% in 2024 to 47% in 2025, according to Medscape’s latest physician burnout and depression report.

Despite the small improvement, doctors are still burning out at higher rates than almost any other profession, fuelled by the time-intensive demands of EHR documentation. Many spend 5.8 hours per 8 hours of scheduled patient care on these administrative tasks rather than on direct patient care.

Your practice deserves better. Cue the arrival of AI-generated doctor’s notes: a smarter, faster approach to clinical documentation that’s helping providers cut down on administrative work, reclaim time, and stay focused on the patients in front of them.

This article breaks down how AI-powered medical scribes work, how ambient listening is reshaping documentation, and why Tebra’s AI Note Assist is emerging as a must-have tool in modern practice workflows.

What is a medical scribe?

Traditional medical transcription requires post-visit processing or a human scribe in the room (or virtually) documenting patient interactions. It’s time-consuming, costly, and can raise privacy concerns.

AI medical scribes replace these manual processes with ambient listening technology that captures natural provider-patient conversations and generates structured clinical notes in real time.

Here's how these AI-powered virtual scribes work:

  • The physician activates the ambient listening feature at the start of an appointment.
  • AI passively captures, securely processes, and transcribes the natural conversation in real time.
  • The tool extracts, organizes, and formats content into structured clinical notes.
  • Finally, the tool automatically populates appropriate fields and uploads the clinical notes in the existing EHR system for clinicians to review, edit, and sign.

With a medical AI scribe, practices can eliminate the distraction of manual note-taking and keep physicians focused entirely on their patients. 

Ready to lighten your administrative workload and focus more on your patients? Learn more about Tebra’s AI tools

How ambient listening in healthcare is revolutionizing documentation

Ambient AI scribes work quietly in the background, using voice recognition and natural language processing to understand medical conversations — even with medical acronyms, accents, or fast-paced speech.

They pull out billing-ready clinical details and format them automatically into editable notes. With less typing and more presence, doctors can build stronger rapport with patients and reduce mental load during busy days.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine featured these findings about the impact of ambient listening technology on physicians and patients:

  • 71% of patients reported spending more time talking with their doctor
  • 81% of patients noticed their doctor looked at the screen less
  • Providers said that ambient technology made long visits feel more personal and focused

How Tebra's AI Note Assist reduces friction in clinical workflows

The most effective AI scribes don’t just transcribe — they integrate. Tebra’s AI Note Assist, an AI scribe for providers, is embedded directly into the Tebra EHR. Using it means there are no additional platforms, no manual transfers, and no disruption to your workflow.

With Tebra's AI note assist, you get:

  • Accuracy: AI Notes Assist’s advanced medical language understanding reduces errors and misinterpretations.
  • Speed: Real-time note generation — typically in under one minute.
  • Affordability: At just $0.99 per note, or subscription-based pricing at $99 per month, it costs a fraction of human scribes or monthly fees charged by many similar tools.
  • Integration: Directly integrates into Tebra’s clinical workflows.
  • Compliance and security: The tool is fully HIPAA-compliant with strong security protocols that safeguard patient data.
  • Pre-built note templates: AI Note Assist supports SOAP, Therapist Initial, Therapist Progress, Psych Initial, and Psych Progress formats.
  • Customizable edits and approvals: Providers review, edit, and approve notes before finalizing.

Burnout relief in action: Real results from real practices

Practices that have adopted Tebra AI Note Assist are reclaiming hours of their day, improving patient engagement, and restoring provider satisfaction. Let’s explore a few real-world examples.

Reclaiming valuable time

Angela Davis-Taylor, a family nurse practitioner at Daisy Family Health Care, shares how the tool slashed documentation time from nearly an hour to just minutes: "My notes used to take 30 to 60 minutes because they would be so detailed. With the Tebra AI Note Assist, each of my notes today took not even 5 minutes." This represents more than just time saved — it’s a reclamation of the provider’s workday.

This reduction in documentation time isn't an isolated case. John Ferren, IT systems administrator at Grace Women's Clinic, confirms similar results: "It could be 20 to 30 minutes for the provider to write the note. And with AI Note Assist, she was spending 3 minutes on each note."

Enhanced patient experience 

When providers aren't tethered to keyboards, they can fully engage with patients. Tebra’s AI Note Assist allows doctors to focus on their patients, improving the overall patient experience.

"Patients enjoy the AI Note Assist because I can actually focus on them and they don't feel that I'm distracted writing my notes," Angela Davis-Taylor says.

Patients enjoy the AI Note Assist because I can actually focus on them and they don't feel that I'm distracted writing my notes.
Angela Davis-Taylor, a family nurse practitioner at Daisy Family Health Care

Erica Cheshire from Beaumont WELLness for Women echoes this sentiment, appreciating how the technology enables more natural patient interactions: "What I like about the AI Note Assist is I can do small talk with my patient and the AI can pick up the parts of the conversation that matter the most, and filter out what's irrelevant. So I feel like I can be myself in the room, which is comforting."

Restoring work-life balance

Perhaps the most profound effect of reducing documentation burden is the restoration of work-life balance. 

Jennifer Sigler, a certified women’s health care nurse practitioner and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Beaumont WELLness for Women, captures it perfectly: "I got to go home early yesterday because of AI Note Assist."

Even more striking is how the technology is preventing early retirements in a field already facing staffing shortages: "We have a provider who has wanted to retire for years [...] and the AI Note Assist turned it around for her. She feels that with this, she can continue working. It was huge for her," Ferren says.

Reclaim your time with Tebra

Documentation doesn’t have to be a frustrating and time-intensive process. Tebra's AI Note Assist can help you transform your documentation workflow, so you can chart less, reclaim your time, reduce burnout, and provide more quality patient care. 

Learn more about how Tebra’s AI Note Assist can help your practice thrive by scheduling a demo today.

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Elsier Otachi

Elsier Otachi is a healthcare and business writer. She has several family members in the healthcare industry, and believes independent practices offer patients more personalized care and treatment than larger systems. Her ultimate goal is to add value through information sharing, and her passion for writing about healthcare is rooted in getting to help create better health outcomes and improve lives for the better.

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Hannah Abrams, Product Marketing Manager, Tebra’s Care Delivery Products

As the Product Marketing Manager for Tebra’s Care Delivery products, Hannah looks to combine healthcare’s emerging trends with customer insights to improve the lives of independent providers.

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