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Already running Plaud or another AI tool, or need to make the case to a partner? The library below is yours — free, ungated, every claim linked to its source so you can check our work. But if you haven't quantified your own day yet, start with the free time assessment above. That's the fastest way to see what's actually happening in your clinic.
Shadow AI · Compliance
In a national survey, nearly 1 in 5 clinicians admitted using AI their organization never approved.
A December 2025 survey of 518 healthcare providers and administrators found 17% admitted using an unauthorized AI tool at work, and another 40% had encountered one without using it. Because it's a self-reported national mixed-role sample, it can't estimate prevalence in any one practice — but it's enough to justify asking the question rather than assuming no unapproved use exists.
What it means for your practiceThe exposure doesn't wait for you to adopt AI — it can walk in on staff phones. A written AI-use policy is increasingly a practical governance safeguard: the difference between a managed tool and an unmanaged one.
Time · EHR Burden
Nearly an hour on the computer for every hour with a patient.
The largest national study of physician EHR use — 200,081 physicians, measured from EHR activity data rather than physician estimates — found 5.8 hours of EHR work for every 8 hours scheduled with patients. That's about 44 minutes of EHR work per scheduled patient hour, and nearly 55 minutes in primary care. A large share of it falls outside scheduled hours.
What it means for your practiceYou didn't imagine it. For every hour you're scheduled with a patient, roughly another 44 minutes goes to the EHR — documentation, chart review, orders, and inbox. This is the baseline the ADPIE Assessment measures your own practice against, because you can't fix a day you've never seen quantified.
Adoption · The Gap
Physician AI use nearly doubled in one year. Governance didn't.
The AMA's Augmented Intelligence Research surveys found 66% of physicians using health AI in 2024, up from 38% in 2023 — a very rapid rise. Top asks from physicians: data privacy assurances, EHR integration, and a feedback channel.
What it means for your practicePhysician AI use is already widespread. The open question is whether the tools in your building were chosen, vetted, and governed, or just... arrived. That gap is where the risk lives.
Guide · Self-Install
The Plaud Self-Install Guide for independent practices.
Step-by-step instructions for buying your own Plaud device and building a safe AI documentation workflow on your own — no consulting engagement required. For any independent private practice in the U.S.
In production — publishing soon. Follow @dx80official for release.
Skills · Do-It-Yourself AI
Free dX80 skills to hand off your notes, your inbox, your prior auths.
The same kind of AI workflows we build inside a practice, packaged as free skills you can run yourself — turn a visit into a draft note, a message into a reply, a prior auth into a first draft. Built and broken and rebuilt in real practices, by a nurse.
In production — publishing soon. Follow @dx80official for release.