Changes in Clinician Time Expenditure and Visit Quantity With Adoption of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Scribes: A Multisite Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled scribes have been proposed to reduce electronic health record (EHR) burden and improve clinician satisfaction. There is limited evidence about their associated results across multiple sites and relative benefits for different clinician groups.

Objective

To assess the association of AI scribe adoption with changes in EHR time expenditure and visit volume and how associations vary by clinician characteristics.

Design, setting, and participants

Multisite, longitudinal cohort study of AI scribe adoption conducted at 5 US academic health care institutions that introduced AI scribes to their clinicians between June 2023 and August 2025. Participants were ambulatory clinicians.

Exposures

AI scribe adoption, defined as re

SUBMITTER: Rotenstein LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC13044793 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature