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Effect of a generative artificial intelligence digital scribe on pediatric provider documentation time, cognitive burden, and burnout.
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Emergency Medicine Practitioners Overall Well-being Enhancement With Ambient AI Scribes
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cognitive Workload and Mental Burden in Health Care Professionals Interacting With AI: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Evidence on artificial intelligence-assisted clinical documentation and healthcare workers' emotional wellbeing at work: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of use of ambient listening technology on patient-reported communication and satisfaction ratings.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2026Article
- For the record: a narrative review of ambient voice technology in clinical documentation for dentistry and wider healthcare.British dental journal · 2026Review
- The ethics of listening walls: patient autonomy and consent in the age of ambient clinical AI.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence and Clinician Burnout in the United States: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2026Review
- Clinician in the loop: a flawed solution for AI oversight.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2026Article
- Ambient scribe in general practice: a multi-perspective before-after longitudinal mixed-methods study.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- The MediVoice implementation journey: ambient artificial intelligence for clinical documentation.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- The use of ambient voice technology (AVT) for clinician-patient consultations in healthcare practice: A rapid systematic scoping review.BMJ digital health & AI · 2026Article
- Large Language Models in Critical Care Medicine: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Article
- AI Scribes in Health Care: Balancing Transformative Potential With Responsible Integration.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: To assess the effect of a digital scribe among pediatric providers on documentation time, cognitive load, burnout, and caregiver satisfaction. Materials and Methods: Six-month pilot of digital scribe use in pediatric generalists and subspecialists between June 27, 2024 and February 22, 2025. We included all pilot providers with EHR record logs. Using pretest-postest and interrupted time series analysis (ITSA), we analyzed associations between digital scribe use and documentation time, NASA task load index, mini-Z burnout inventory, and caregiver satisfaction. We conducted thematic analysis of provider feedback. Results: The digital scribe was used to generate notes for 69.5% of encounters (31 931/45 914) across 84 providers during 1454 provider-weeks. Compared with before scribe adoption, there was a mean time savings of 2.8 (95% CI, 2.1-3.5) minutes in the EHR notes activity per appointment following digital scribe adoption, averaging 1.5 (95% CI, 1.1-1.8) hours per provider-week, totaling 2143 (95% CI, 1607-2678) hours during the pilot. ITSA demonstrated 20.9% (95% CI, 17.2-24.6) time savings with digital scribe adoption. In provider surveys, there were significant reductions in all task load components (all Discussion: Digital scribe use was associated with decreased documentation time, task load, provider burnout, and improved caregiver satisfaction. Further study is needed to determine if pilot results are scalable.
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