Artificial intelligence (AI) writes the doctor’s doctor’s conversations and the recruitment of summarized notes, significantly reducing the documentation that burns. A new analysis published in Catalyst Nejm It shows that this innovation saved permanent doctors in northern California the equivalent of 1,794 business days in a year, almost five years of work hours. Permanent medical groups (TPMG) The analysis also found that AI writes the medical’s improved patient’s communication.
The authors analyzed the impact of the adoption of AI scribes on the amount of time that doctors spent on administrative work, doctor’s satisfaction and patient satisfaction in a period of 63 weeks. The same authors previously published a February 2024 Catalyst Nejm article On the lessons learned, a 10 -week technology pilot. That article informed in a similar way that the scribes of IA saved the doctors in clinical notes and improved the patient’s medical communication.
In the new analysis (link below), doctors who use scribes of AI experienced statistically significant reductions in:
- Notes on 7 am to 7 pm notes
- Time spent by appointment
- “Pajama time”, the work done by personal hours outside or from 7 am at 5:30 pm
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“We have an opportunity and a large amount of taking advantage of the innovative AI that improves patient care and increases the abilities of our doctors, while supporting their well -being,” said analysis co -author Kistine Lee, associate of TPMG.
Improved interactions for the patient
Patients and doctors reported satisfaction with AI scribes. Forty -seven percent of patients said the doctor spent less time looking at the duration of their computer a visit, and 39% said their doctor spent more time talking directly on the subject. Doctors said that technology had a positive effect on patient interactions (84%) and general labor satisfaction (82%). Mental health doctors, emergency medicine and primary care were more likely to use technology.
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Despite the participation of AI, the tool does not make decisions or recommendations to the doctor about patient care. The technology of the involved is a generative AI applied to conversations to produce transcripts and summaries in a medical environment, Coauthorthortor explained Vincent Liu, MDMSC, a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanent Research Division and TPMG Data Director.
“Now we have shown that this technology relieves workloads for doctors,” said Dr. Liu. “Both doctors and patients value face -to -face contact during a visit, and the scribe of AI supports it.”
The high users of the benefit of the IA scribes must
Doctors who used AI scribes most frequently experienced the greatest time savings effect. The upper third of the users represented 89% of the activations of the writing scribes of the evaluation period. The doctors who were more likely to adopt scribes of AI tended to have more time in notes, orders and clinical review by appointment, while they had visits to Fower per day before the deployment of technology.
High users saved twice and a half more time by note than those who used IA scribes less frequently. The “dose response” or the scribes of AI in time savings point to the need to promote the broader adoption among doctors, the authors say.
IA’s scribes were used by 7,260 permanent doctors in more than 2.5 million patient meetings during the evaluation period. There was no correlation between the age of a doctor and the probability of adoption.
The authors concluded that IA’s scribes show a great promise to reduce the doctor’s workload. Additional research is needed to determine the impact and usefulness of AI scribes within different medical specialties.
