Medical Futurist January 16, 2026
For centuries, scribes have been part of the medical corpus, documenting events and performing administrative tasks. They shadow clinicians during their consultations to document the […]
Key Takeaways
Medical AI scribes promise to support administrative tasks and save clinicians time.
The tool’s time efficiency is more nuanced than it might seem.
For centuries, scribes have been part of the medical corpus, documenting events and performing administrative tasks. They shadow clinicians during their consultations to document the encounter in real-time, which is then reviewed and signed off by the clinician. In the digital health age, their tasks have evolved to work with...







