AI note-taking tool significantly reduces doctors’ paperwork time, analysis shows

Key Highlights

• The analysis includes more than 375,000 medical notes taken by nearly 1,300 clinicians using the company’s AI medical scribe, which is available in 11 European markets, including Spain, France, and the United Kingdom.
• Tandem Health also surveyed 177 health workers to understand how they use the AI tool, which is classified as a medical device in the European Union.
• On average, the AI scribe cut the amount of time that clinicians spent on medical notes from 6.69 minutes to 4.71 minutes – a 29 per cent reduction, the analysis found.
• The clinicians – including general practitioners (GPs), surgeons, psychologists, and nurses – also reported feeling more present during patient consultations and less stressed from administrative tasks.
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