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Cerbo AI Scribe

Cerbo AI Scribe is the ambient documentation feature built into Cerbo, an EHR and practice management system for functional and integrative medicine, direct primary care, cash based practices, IV and hormone therapy clinics and medical spas. Cerbo merged with OptiMantra, another EHR for wellness clinics, in December 2025 under chief executive Jeff Hindman, and says more than 5,000 practitioners use its software.

AI Scribe records the visit with the patient's consent and drafts a structured note inside the Cerbo chart, where it stays in review until the provider edits and signs it. The feature entered beta in April 2026 and was released to every Cerbo client in August. During the beta it gained version history, so a provider can restore an earlier draft, and the ability to draft into a clinician's own Chart Part templates; since September it also reads the patient's active medication list while drafting. An account's Super Admin switches it on.

It costs $29 per provider per month for up to 60 notes, or $59 for unlimited notes under an introductory offer that runs to June 30, 2027 against a list price of $79. Cerbo's master subscription agreement carries an AI Scribe addendum that treats outputs as draft documentation aids, makes the practice responsible for review and patient consent, and says the feature may depend on third party services it does not name. The accuracy and time savings figures on the product page are targets rather than results.

AI Health Index verifiedOctober 11, 2026
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Founded
2026
Headquarters
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Categories
ambient-scribes
Indexed Products
AI Scribe, AI Scribe Unlimited
Buyer Segments
Independent Practice, Specialty Practice
Assessment

Capability Axes

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AI Capability
BB on AI CentralityThe model is the engine of a core module. The platform carries other value, but this capability does not exist without it.
Vendor Published

Every draft AI Scribe produces comes from the model listening to the visit and structuring what it hears into a note, so within the feature the model does the work.

The feature is an add on to Cerbo's EHR rather than a product sold on its own. It runs only for Cerbo customers, is switched on by an account administrator, and sits beside the charting, portal and practice management tools those practices already pay for.

BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelThe oversight structure is described and one part is missing, commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

Each note sits in review until the provider approves it, and the provider edits and signs before anything enters the record; Cerbo states that nothing writes to the chart without that review. Earlier versions of each AI note are kept, so a provider can browse them and restore one after an unwanted edit. The patient's consent is required for every recorded note, a visit can be documented by hand if the patient declines, and only an account's Super Admins can turn the feature on.

How the draft marks content the system is unsure of, or what it does with an inaudible or ambiguous passage, is not described.

CC on Model and Technology TransparencyThe architecture is described in general terms with nothing identified. Proprietary is asserted rather than explained.
Vendor Published

Cerbo describes AI Scribe as recording the clinical conversation, interpreting it in context and separating clinical content from small talk before drafting a structured note.

No model, model family, speech recognition engine or version is named, so a practice cannot tell which model drafts its notes or when that model changes.

DD on Model Supply Chain DisclosureNothing establishes who else sits between a patient record and an answer.
Vendor Published

The AI Scribe addendum says the feature may depend on third party services and applications, and that CerboOM can change or withdraw AI functions if a provider changes its terms.

None of those providers is named and Cerbo has no subprocessor list, so the model and speech services that receive visit audio are unknown to the practice.

DD on Clinical and Operational EvidenceNo named deployment and no performance claim a reader can check. A figure published with no source sits here rather than higher.
Vendor Published

The product page states its figures as targets rather than results: a 30 percent or greater cut in documentation time, 98 percent or better accuracy on generated output and fewer than five manual edits per encounter, set against a baseline of 30 minutes of charting for every 15 minute visit. One unnamed direct primary care customer is quoted welcoming a scribe built into the EHR.

The feature has been available to all Cerbo clients only since August 2026, after a beta that began in April, and no named practice, measured result or study for it exists yet.

BB on AI Safety and PHI StewardshipCategorical commitments are published, such as no training on customer data, without the retention schedule behind them.
Vendor Published

Recording requires the patient's consent for every note, and the AI Scribe addendum makes the practice responsible for patient notices. The master subscription agreement lets CerboOM use client materials to develop and improve its products and to create aggregated, de identified data that CerboOM owns, so customer content is available for product development.

How long visit audio and transcripts are kept is not stated, and the product page says only that the feature runs inside Cerbo's existing HIPAA compliant infrastructure. Guardrails against fabricated content are not described.

Regulatory and Compliance
AA on HIPAA and BAA PostureBusiness associate status is stated, the agreement is available to read before contracting, the tier it applies at is clear, and the agreement discloses that it binds subcontractors who handle protected health information. Which parties those subcontractors are is graded on Model Supply Chain Disclosure and is not counted again here. Where any of the four cannot be verified from published material, the grade is the band below.
Vendor Published

Cerbo publishes its business associate agreement as a template on its site, between the client and CerboOM, LLC, the same entity that signs the master subscription agreement. It takes effect when both parties sign, applies whenever CerboOM handles PHI, requires subcontractors to accept the same or similar restrictions in writing, and permits CerboOM to use and disclose de identified data.

Breach notice is promised without unreasonable delay rather than within a set number of days, and PHI is returned or destroyed between 90 days and one year after termination. AI Scribe runs inside the same Cerbo environment the agreement covers.

DD on Security Certifications and Trust CenterControls are asserted with nothing independent behind them, or nothing is published. Read the note before concluding anything: this is the grade most often corrected on a second pass, because assurance material frequently sits on a parent domain or inside an old announcement rather than on the product pages.
Vendor Published

Cerbo describes encryption of all data at rest and in transit, daily backups with point in time recovery, role based access, logging of access attempts, automatic lockout and intrusion detection, and points to the security certifications of the cloud provider that hosts it.

No audit of Cerbo's own operations is named, such as SOC 2, HITRUST or ISO 27001, and no trust center or penetration testing program is described, so none of these controls has been examined from outside in a way a practice can see.

CC on FDA and Regulatory StatusNo device claim is made and the product is scoped accordingly. Most administrative and operational products sit here and are not penalized for it, because this axis grades the appropriateness of the positioning rather than possession of a clearance.
Vendor Published

AI Scribe drafts documentation, and the addendum calls its outputs draft documentation aids only, with no warranty of clinical appropriateness or regulatory compliance. No device status is claimed, and the product page frames the division plainly: the AI suggests and the provider decides.

Nothing on the page describes coding, order drafting or clinical suggestions, so the feature stays within documentation.

DD on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureNothing published on how model behavior is governed or tested. Multilingual operation with no subgroup performance sits here when the vendor markets recognition quality as a strength, because a caller the system failed to understand leaves no complaint and no record.
Vendor Published

Patient consent is required for every recording, only administrators can switch the feature on, and every note needs the provider's signature.

How the model's behavior is tested is not described. The 98 percent accuracy figure is a target with no method behind it, and no evaluation by specialty, accent, language or patient group exists for a feature released to all clients in August 2026.

CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms exist that let someone challenge an output, such as audit trails, source traceability or review before commit, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the harmed party.
Vendor Published

Providers review and sign every note, which is the point where an error can be caught. The AI Scribe addendum places that responsibility on the practice: outputs are draft documentation aids, CerboOM gives no warranty of accuracy, completeness or reliability, and the practice indemnifies CerboOM for claims tied to its use of the outputs.

CerboOM's own indemnity covers intellectual property claims only, and its liability is capped at the fees paid in the prior 12 months.

Integration and Deployment
BB on EHR and Interoperability DepthNamed systems with read access or one directional writing, or standards support with named deployments behind it.
Vendor Published

AI Scribe drafts directly into the Cerbo chart, with no second app and no copy and paste, and the structured note is waiting in the encounter when the visit ends. Since September 2026 it also reads the patient's active medication list while drafting, so the note reflects what the chart already records.

That depth comes with a boundary: the feature works only inside Cerbo. Practices on other record systems cannot use it, and Cerbo's API, which outside scribes use to reach Cerbo charts, is a separate route from the native feature. Cerbo's product log lists one such scribe, Heidi Health, as a beta integration since December 2025.

CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyA single hosted option with location implied rather than committed.
Vendor Published

The feature runs inside Cerbo's hosted environment, and Cerbo's standard setup fee covers a private cloud server for each practice, which suggests one clinic's system is kept apart from another's.

The cloud provider and region are not named, and no residency option is described.

Commercial
AA on Commercial TransparencyPublished tiers with figures, a stated unit of charge, and a route to start without a sales conversation.
Vendor Published

Pricing is listed on Cerbo's site: $29 per provider per month for up to 60 notes, or $59 per provider per month with no note limit. The $59 rate is an introductory offer that runs to June 30, 2027 against a list price of $79.

Existing Cerbo customers turn it on themselves in about two minutes, with no sales step. A practice new to Cerbo also takes on the EHR, from $281 a month for a full time prescribing provider plus a $1,195 setup fee, and Cerbo says it does not lock customers into long term contracts.

CC on Setting and Specialty CoverageCoverage is claimed broadly without specifics, or stated clearly with nothing validating it yet.
Vendor Published

The target buyers are the independent and cash based practices Cerbo serves: functional and integrative medicine, direct primary care, IV and hormone therapy clinics and medical spas.

Notes can follow a clinician's own Chart Part templates, the building blocks Cerbo practices already use for encounter notes, so existing formats carry over to the scribe. No specialty testing or supported languages are described, and the only customer voice is an unnamed direct primary care provider.

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Commercial

Pricing

Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.

Entry Price Pricing Basis BAA Tier Implementation Source
$29 per provider per month
$29 baseline
Per provider per month: $29 for up to 60 notes, or $59 with no note limit under an introductory offer that runs to June 30, 2027 against a list price of $79. Available only to practices on the Cerbo EHR. Cerbo's business associate agreement template is published and covers its services, AI Scribe included. None for existing Cerbo customers, who switch it on themselves. A practice new to Cerbo pays the EHR setup fee of $1,195, or $595 for qualifying new solo practices. Vendor Published

Cerbo EHR plans start at $281 a month for a full time prescribing provider. Cerbo says it does not lock customers into long term contracts or cancellation fees.