Medscape September 16, 2024
TOPLINE:
An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered clinical documentation tool helped reduce time spent on electronic health records (EHR) at home for almost 48% physicians, and nearly 45% reported less weekly time spent on EHR tasks outside of normal work hours.
METHODOLOGY:
- Researchers recruited 112 clinicians from family medicine, internal medicine, and general pediatrics in North Carolina and Georgia.
- Patients were divided into an intervention group (n = 85) and control group (n = 55), with the intervention group receiving a 1-hour training program on a commercially available AI tool.
- A seven-question survey was administered to participants before and 5 weeks after the intervention to evaluate their experience.
TAKEAWAY:
- The researchers found 47.1% of clinicians in the intervention group...