AI-powered clinical notes vs. traditional EHR documentation: A side-by-side comparison

Accurate documentation is critical for effective healthcare delivery and patient safety, and critical for reimbursement and quality metrics. But most United States physicians spend too much time on documentation, taking focus away from patients and their needs. 

This has sparked a growing interest in solutions like medical AI scribes and ambient AI scribe tools. These tools can streamline charting, reduce administrative burden, and boost efficiency, potentially saving you hours each week so you can concentrate on what matters most: your patients. 

Traditional EHR documentation often relies on manual, repetitive tasks, from typing and copy-pasting into static templates to toggling between systems.

Even with the help of clinical documentation software, note-taking continues to be a labor-intensive, burdensome process that leads to after-hours charting and disengagement from patients. 

Medical transcription offers some relief as a trained transcriptionist or automated tools convert voice-recorded medical notes into written text. Virtual scribes, who are remote real people, take this further by transcribing encounters in real time. 

But these services often carry high costs, raise HIPAA and liability concerns, and still require effort from providers to organize and input content into the EHR.

An AI scribe is a documentation tool that uses artificial intelligence to capture and transcribe patient encounters in real time, without manual input.

AI scribe features include:

Tebra’s AI Note Assist is powered by cutting-edge artificial intelligence designed to significantly reduce documentation time, so you can prioritize delivering outstanding patient care. 

Key features include:

Our customers report tangible benefits, including measurable time savings that can eliminate after-hours charting. “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,” Angela Davis-Taylor, FNP-C, INHC, shares.

Explore how Tebra’s AI Note Assist can save you 30–50% of your documentation time.

The following table shows the transformative potential of AI-powered notes compared to traditional documentation.

Tebra customer Erica Cheshire, ANP-BC, has this to say about AI Note Assist: “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.” 

AI-powered solutions are defining a new era in clinical documentation, setting a higher accuracy standard while significantly enhancing provider workflows. We encourage you to pilot these tools and assess their real-world return on investment.

Tebra’s AI Note Assist makes it easy — offering solutions to save time, enhance patient engagement, and restore provider joy.

Join the private practices already benefiting from AI medical documentation. Try Tebra’s AI Note Assist today.