By Jamie Frew, CEO of Carepatron
Over the past year, AI use among the clinicians on our platform has grown by 81%. What stands out is not just the number itself, but the pattern behind it. The practices leaning on AI the most are also among the busiest and healthiest we see. They bill close to three times as much and see around twice as many clients per clinician as practices that use no AI at all.
When we ask clinicians why, the answer almost always comes down to a single word: time. That is the problem we set out to solve, and it is a deeply human one.
Documentation is one of the biggest drivers of after-hours work and burnout in private practice. Notes follow clinicians home. They sit unfinished on laptops at 9:00 PM, long after the last client has left and the rest of the house has gone quiet.
We did not build an AI scribe because AI was the trend of the moment. We built it because writing notes was quietly stealing clinicians’ evenings, and we believed good documentation tools should be standard for everyone who does this work—not a premium feature locked behind a paywall that most people never reach.
We recently began rolling out AI Scribe v3.0, our most advanced scribe yet, completely redesigned around the entire clinical session rather than just a single recording:
- Before the session: A briefing surfaces the previous summary, goals for the visit, and the chief complaint so a clinician walks in fully prepared.
- During the session: The scribe works seamlessly in person or inside a telehealth call.
- After the session: An automated summary appears on every note. Clinicians can instantly generate different templates (like a SOAP note), regenerate drafts, add ICD-10 codes directly to the note, and keep private working notes in a separate scratchpad.
Every note stays securely anchored to the specific appointment it documents.
Through every iteration, one core principle has remained unchanged: every AI draft is clearly flagged for the clinician to review and edit before signing. The technology does the heavy lifting, but the clinician stays in absolute control of the clinical record. For anyone working in healthcare, that distinction matters, and it is something we will never compromise on.
The most immediate benefit is the one clinicians feel that very same evening: hours handed back. Time that used to go toward writing up notes can now be redirected to another client, or used to close the laptop and be fully present at home.
Because we have always included the scribe across all tiers—including our Free plan—a solo clinician just starting out gets access to the exact same tool as a large, established practice. Many comparable platforms put AI documentation behind a premium tier or attach a hefty monthly fee. We took the opposite view: if a feature genuinely reduces burnout, it shouldn’t be a luxury you have to pay extra to unlock.
Looking ahead, our goal is to keep building AI around the entire architecture of a clinician’s day, not just the moment of documentation, while keeping it accessible and standard. The metric we care about isn’t how advanced the technology sounds. It is whether it gives healthcare providers the time and energy to focus on the people they care for. So far, they are telling us it does.
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About the Author: Jamie Frew is the CEO of Carepatron, the all-in-one practice management platform for health and wellness professionals. He leads its mission to give clinicians their time back, championing the belief that advanced tools like AI documentation should be standard for every practitioner.
