# Paper Cost Calculator

> Estimate how much your clinic spends on paper forms every month and what going digital could save.

Source: https://www.medicine.et/tools/paper-cost-calculator  
Site: Bloom Medicine — https://www.medicine.et

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## What it calculates

- Monthly spend on printed forms, cards and registers, from patient volume and per-visit paper use.
- The portion of that spend a digital record removes outright.

## Why it matters here

Paper cost is the visible part; the record-quality cost is larger. When Ethiopian paper records were audited, only 18.4% of 2,145 were complete and readable. See [the research note on the paper-to-EMR gap](https://www.medicine.et/research/paper-to-emr-gap).

The calculator itself is interactive and runs in the browser at https://www.medicine.et/tools/paper-cost-calculator. Nothing is submitted or stored.