Medical Scribe and Ambient Artificial Intelligence Impact on Emergency Physician Documentation Burden and Clinical Productivity

The authors aimed to evaluate the impact of ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribes and human scribes on emergency physicians' documentation burden and clinical productivity compared to encounters with no scribe. Their findings indicated that both ambient AI and human scribes significantly reduced documentation time, with AI scribes leading to a 1.6-minute reduction and human scribes a 3.3-minute reduction, while clinical productivity, measured as work relative value units per shift hour, remained unchanged across all groups.