{"id":360068,"date":"2026-04-02T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:30:12","slug":"large-ai-scribe-study-finds-modest-time-savings-inconsistent-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360068\/","title":{"rendered":"Large AI scribe study finds modest time savings, inconsistent use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech\u2019s promise. He\u2019s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter<\/a>. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.<\/p>\n

Ambient scribes were pitched as a way to ease the burden on stressed-out doctors by automatically documenting patient visits. But a new study suggests clinicians may need guidance to get the most out of these artificial intelligence tools.<\/p>\n

The large new study<\/a> of AI scribe use by 1,800 clinicians across five academic medical centers from 2023 to 2025 found those using the technology saved 16 minutes of documentation time and spent 13 fewer minutes in the medical record for every eight hours of patient care. The study did not find significant impacts on time spent in the electronic health record outside of working hours. Primary care and female clinicians benefitted more than others. Scribe adopters were able to see one additional patient every two weeks.<\/p>\n

The findings offer the most definitive real-world data confirming earlier smaller studies. A STAT review<\/a> of published work last year found scribes saved clinicians under a minute per clinical note. Surprisingly, despite the modest time savings, other studies<\/a> have found that scribes drive large improvements in burnout and other measures of clinician well-being.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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