A new study, co-led by investigators from Mass General Brigham and the University of California, San Francisco, tracked ambient documentation use across five U.S. hospitals for more than two years.
The researchers found that AI scribes were associated with modest daily reductions of 13 minutes in EHR usage and 16 minutes in documentation time, representing relative decreases of 3% and 10%, respectively.
The findings, published in JAMA, also showed a slight increase in productivity, measured as 0.5 additional patient visits per week.
According to the study's authors, these new insights should encourage health systems to better investigate how the new technologies are impacting clinician workflows.
These findings are the first published results of the Ambient Clinical Documentation Collaborative (ACDC), a multi-organizational research effort.
More than 1,800 clinicians using AI scribes in the present study were compared with 6,770 control clinicians at the same institutions
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