The best AI scribe for an athenahealth practice
Scribeable is our pick for an athenahealth practice that wants the note and its suggested codes from one recording, each sentence linked to where it came from, with nothing to change inside athenaOne. Scribeable Pro is $79 a month for unlimited notes. The Scribeable Chrome extension inserts the finished note into athenaOne's web interface after checking the patient on screen, where its field mapping matches your screen, and guides section-by-section copying everywhere else. This is not an EHR integration: Scribeable does not use athenaOne's API and is not listed in the athenahealth Marketplace.
athenahealth has its own option, and you should look at it first. athenaAmbient, launched August 13, 2026, is ambient documentation built into athenaOne at no additional subscription cost. athenahealth says it drafts notes, suggests possible diagnoses, recommends order types and flags care gaps. Scribeable gives you sources you can open, a short question when a detail is missing, code suggestions for you or your coder to check, letters and forms from the same visit, and an account that stays yours if you change jobs. Its launch coverage does not say whether athenaAmbient does each of those, so ask athenahealth.
14-day Pro trial, no credit card required. Everything in Pro, including Rounding, for up to 150 notes. To keep Pro after day 14, subscribe for $79/month plus applicable tax. If you don't, nothing is charged and your account moves to the Free plan once you add your NPI (until then it is read-only), with every note kept.
We make Scribeable, so this pick is not neutral. What we say about athenaAmbient comes from its public launch coverage. We make no claim about the accuracy of any other scribe, and we have no independent measurement of one.
The routes a scribe's note can take into athenaOne
Practices ask whether a scribe "works with" athenahealth as if that were one thing. It is at least four different things, and they fail in different ways. Ask which route you are buying.
| Route | What happens | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| Built into athenaOne | athenaAmbient drafts the note inside athenaOne. athenahealth says it also suggests possible diagnoses, recommends order types and flags care gaps. | Whether your athenaOne contract and setup include it, and whether the note matches how you write. |
| App on the athenahealth Marketplace | A vendor listed in the Marketplace uses athenahealth's published interfaces. | Look up the listing yourself. Ask which fields it writes and what it reads from the chart. |
| Browser extension | A Chrome extension places the finished note into the fields on your screen. This is the route Scribeable uses. | Best-effort, and it depends on your athenaOne setup. Ask what it does when the wrong patient is open. |
| Copy and paste | You copy the note section by section. It works in any EHR, including Citrix and desktop installs. | How many sections you are pasting per visit. |
A visit with Scribeable and athenaOne
- Record the visit on your iPhone, on an Apple Watch, or in a browser tab. Nothing is installed inside athenaOne.
- Scribeable writes the note in your template. If the plan needs a detail nobody said, such as a dose, you get a short question about it.
- Read the note. Each sentence drawn from the visit links back to where it came from, so you can open the source before you sign.
- Open the encounter in athenaOne in Chrome. The Scribeable extension checks the patient on screen and inserts the note where its field mapping matches.
- Where it does not match, the extension walks you through copying section by section.
What Scribeable gives you beyond the note
- ICD-10 suggestions with the matching note text where there is one, the E/M level from MDM or the time you attest, and the HCC V28 categories the note documents, for you or your coder to check.
- 236 clinical calculators computed in code, not recalled by the model.
- After-visit summaries, letters and official forms from the same recording.
- Your own format: paste a note you already wrote and Scribeable builds a template from its section headers, their order and its formatting. Patient details are stripped before anything is saved.
- An account in your name that moves with you between employers.
When to pick something else
- If you want ambient documentation built into athenaOne, start with athenaAmbient. It is already in your EHR, at no additional subscription cost.
- If you need the note written through athenahealth's interfaces rather than placed on screen, look for a vendor with a Marketplace listing. Scribeable does not do this.
- If your practice cannot install Chrome extensions, Scribeable still works by copying, and you should count those pastes before you decide.
What it costs
| Option | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| athenaAmbient | No additional subscription cost | As announced by athenahealth on August 13, 2026. Your athenaOne contract is the source for your practice. |
| Scribeable Free plan | $0, no card | Needs your individual NPI. Notes in your templates, no monthly note cap, up to 10 hours of audio a day. Codes, letters, calculators and Rounding are in Pro. |
| Scribeable Pro | $79 a month | Unlimited notes, with codes, letters, calculators and Rounding. Every account starts with a 14-day Pro trial, no credit card required. |
| Scribeable Practice plan | $139 a month per clinician | Annual agreement billed monthly. MA, nurse, front-desk, coder and manager seats at no charge. One agreement and one BAA. |
The Practice plan, worked through · Scribeable with athenaOne, step by step
What to ask before you buy
Ask every vendor in the demo
- Is the note written through the EHR's interfaces, or placed on screen by an extension?
- Which athenaOne fields does it land in: encounter sections, or an attached document?
- What happens if the wrong patient is open when the note goes in?
- Can each clinician keep their own note format, or does the practice share one?
- Can I open the source of a sentence before I sign it?
- What is the price per clinician, and are staff seats extra?
- Is a BAA included, and is it in place before the first note?
Common questions
Can an AI scribe be used with athenahealth?
Yes. Scribeable is used alongside athenaOne with nothing installed inside it: record the visit on your phone or in a browser tab, review the note, and the Scribeable Chrome extension inserts it into athenaOne's web interface where its field mapping matches your screen. Everywhere else it guides section-by-section copying.
Does athenahealth have an ambient AI scribe?
Yes. athenaAmbient launched on August 13, 2026 as ambient documentation built into athenaOne, at no additional subscription cost. Scribeable is a separate scribe you can use alongside athenaOne: it links each sentence to its source, suggests codes for you or your coder to check, and the account stays yours.
How do I get AI scribe notes into athenaOne?
With Scribeable, open the encounter in athenaOne in Chrome and let the Scribeable extension insert the finished note after it checks the patient on screen, where its field mapping matches. Otherwise copy the note section by section.
Does athenahealth allow third-party AI scribes?
athenahealth runs a Marketplace for third-party apps. Scribeable is not listed there and needs no change inside athenaOne, because it works in your browser and by copying. Ask your athenaOne administrator about any policy your practice has on browser extensions.
How do athenahealth practices avoid copy and paste with an AI scribe?
athenaAmbient drafts inside athenaOne, so nothing is pasted. With Scribeable, the Chrome extension inserts the note where its field mapping matches your screen, and you copy section by section where it does not.
Which AI scribe can I use with athenahealth instead of Suki or Abridge?
Scribeable can be used with athenaOne by Chrome extension or by copying, with no sales call: every account starts with a 14-day Pro trial, no credit card required. We make no statement about how other vendors reach athenaOne, so ask each one which route it uses.
Is Scribeable covered by a BAA for athenahealth practices?
Yes. A signed BAA comes with every Scribeable plan, including the Free plan and the 14-day Pro trial. It is accepted with the Platform Terms at sign-up.
athenahealth, athenaOne and athenaAmbient are trademarks of athenahealth, Inc. Scribeable is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by athenahealth. Extension insertion into athenaOne is best-effort and depends on the deployment; copying works everywhere.