Becker's Healthcare January 16, 2026
Ambient AI scribes are boosting physician productivity and earnings, but may be contributing to rising healthcare costs at the same time, according to recent analyses published in JAMA Network Open and reported out by Medscape Jan. 16.
Here are five things to know about the analyses:
1. In one of the analyses, researchers from the University of California San Francisco reviewed EHR data from outpatient visits completed by attending physicians at UCSF Health between Jan. 1, 2023 and April 1, 2025. They compared physician productivity before and after before implementing ambient AI. The researchers found that among physicians who used an AI scribe, weekly productivity increased by an additional 1.81 RVUs and physicians completed an extra .8 visits per...
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