#medicalscribe Tag

20 Oct

Posted at 11:57h in AI and HealthCare, Electronic Records

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In 2022, 46% of U.S. health workers said they often felt burned out, up from 32% in 2018, and 44% planned to look for a new job, according to a CDC Vital Signs analysis. Charting that spills into evenings is one of the most fixable parts of that load.

Ambient AI scribes now have real-world scale behind them. At The Permanente Medical Group, 7,260 physicians used an AI scribe in more than 2.5 million patient encounters between October 2023 and December 2024, saving nearly 16,000 hours of documentation time, according to the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. Use was highest in mental health, emergency medicine, and primary care, the departments with the heaviest documentation loads.

22 May

Posted at 10:31h in Electronic Records
A recent clinic audit showed primary care physicians spending 145.9 minutes a day in the electronic health record, or EHR. That total included 60.7 minutes of after-hours work and 42.9 minutes on notes alone. That is nearly two and a half hours each day spent documenting instead of treating patients. A large share of that time is recoverable. Voice-based documentation, now improved by ambient and generative AI, can cut documentation time, improve note completeness, and reduce after-hours work. That matters whether your team already uses speech recognition or still types every note. The gap between efficient and inefficient documentation workflows is now wide enough to affect access, revenue, and burnout. This workflow now includes real-time speech recognition, back-end transcription, human scribes, and ambient AI that drafts notes from the room conversation. The practical challenge is choosing the right method, then building enough review and compliance control to use it safely. Clinics that set baselines, train staff, and track edits tend to see the fastest gains. Clinics that skip those steps usually trade typing time for editing time.