There is a decade (or more) of studies linking clinician burnout and career dissatisfaction to documentation and electronic health recordkeeping systems like Primary Care Physicians Reportedly Spend A Median Of 16 Minutes Per Day On EHR Tasks During PTO. And recent data certainly suggests that there are tech fixes to the problem.

One new survey that caught my eye—Use Of Ambient AI Scribes To Reduce Administrative Burden And Professional Burnout—found that clinician-reported burnout dropped from 51.9% to 38.8%, after just 30 days of using an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled documentation tool. Prior to adding the tool, the surveyed clinicians performed clinical documentation using manual typing (82.9%), dictation (46.8%), and/or human scribes (16.3%). Only 1.5% had previous experience with another AI documentation…