AWS HealthScribe turns a recorded patient visit into a transcript, structured notes and evidence links for $0.10 a minute, and it is HIPAA-eligible. Commercial scribe products add EHR integration, specialty templates and clinician workflow. The costs, the work that is not transcription, and when building makes sense.
Documentation time is one of the clearest uses of generative AI in medicine, and the market has filled with ambient scribe products. For a health system, the question is whether to buy one or build. For a health tech company, it is whether to build the feature into its own product.
A transcript with speaker roles, clinical notes in sections, and links from each note sentence back to the transcript it came from.
$0.001667 per second of audio, $0.10 per minute, with a 15-second minimum per request. 15,000 minutes a month costs $1,500.
HIPAA eligibility under the AWS BAA, as part of Amazon Transcribe.
A free tier for new users of 300 audio minutes a month for two months.
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Buy when the goal is relief for clinicians in a standard EHR quickly. Products have done the integration and workflow work, and their per-clinician price reflects it.
Build when documentation is part of your own product (a specialty platform, a telehealth service), when you need control over data and models, or when your volume makes per-minute pricing far cheaper than per-seat.
Either way, keep audio and notes under your BAA, and decide up front how long audio is retained.
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