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ArticleMissouri medicine

How Ambient AI Could Bring the Human Touch Back to Medicine.

Areeba Moiz, Evan L O'Keefe, Michael L Main, James H O'Keefe

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Areeba MoizUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City and Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Evan L O'KeefeUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City and Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Michael L MainUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City and Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
James H O'KeefeUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City and Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The United States healthcare system is facing historic levels of clinician burnout and workforce shortage fueled in large part by the onerous demands inherent in electronic health records (EHR). Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribe technology, such as Nuance's Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX), has emerged as a tool to automate clinical documentation via transcribing and summarizing patient-clinician interactions. Studies demonstrate reductions in documentation time, after-hours work, and clinician-reported burnout, alongside improvements in efficiency, patient engagement, and patient and clinician satisfaction. Challenges remain, however, regarding data privacy, algorithmic bias, regulatory oversight, and clinical validation. In the future, ambient AI scribes will evolve beyond transcription, integrating prior patient records, and expand into allied health fields, including nursing. Ambient AI offers a transformative opportunity to strengthen healthcare delivery while preserving humanity in medicine by allowing clinicians to spend more time in face-to-face interactions and less time performing word processing tasks in the EHR.

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Artificial IntelligenceElectronic Health RecordsDigital HealthDocumentationHumansUnited States

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PMID42125288
PMCPMC13160460

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