Healthcare IT Today November 4, 2025
John Lynn

Although ambient voice transcriptions driven by AI are seeing widespread adoption in healthcare institutions, only 20%-40% of clinicians adopt it in each institution, according to Dr. Thomas Kelly, CEO & Co-Founder at Heidi. However, when Heidi’s AI medical scribe is brought in, they achieve an average 60-70% adoption by clinicians.

This is because they focus directly on how to help clinicians do their jobs, according to Kelly, although they don’t ignore the larger issues such as compliance and integration with EHRs. By maintaining independence from the EHR, and by offering many different templates for each specialty, Heidi allows more customization.

Kelly also points out that high adoption is necessary if institutions want to add other tools that depend on the...

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