We’ve entered an age of intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now integral to modern healthcare and is reshaping the healthcare landscape. AI creates a fresh narrative by working silently in the background, propelling transformative shifts and turning the ‘impossible’ into a routine aspect of the new reality.
Burnout is considered a major healthcare crisis not just for providers but also their patients, according to an article published on AMA. It affects providers’ physical and emotional well-being and may also impact patient outcomes and care.
In a recent survey conducted by eClinicalWorks, 59% of respondents confirmed spending 5 hours or more per week on clinical documentation.
While documentation plays a critical role in patient care, an AI-powered medical scribe has the potential to ease providers’ administrative burdens, lower stress, and reduce burnout. 108 respondents claim reduced documentation time could prove to be life changing.
What is an AI Medical Scribe?
An AI medical scribe is an innovative solution that utilizes AI technology to summarize communication between a patient and provider into well-structured notes, allowing providers to focus fully on patient care.
Impact of AI Medical Scribes at Healthcare Practices
Harnessing the power of AI and implementing an AI medical scribe can have several benefits for a practice. It can help not just improve practice workflows but also lead to reduced provider burnout. It enhances a provider’s productivity and impacts patient outcomes as well. Let’s understand how it assists healthcare professionals and practices:
Streamlined workflows
By streamlining clinical documentation, AI medical scribes can help optimize clinical workflows. Timely completion of progress notes accelerates billing workflows, ensuring practices receive patient payments on time and boosting practice revenue.
As we discussed, alleviating documentation burdens can help lower providers’ stress levels. They feel less overwhelmed and can give more focus to providing quality care to their patients. AI can help eliminate some aspects that can lead to burnout among providers.
Improved resource optimization
The time saved on documentation and administrative burdens can be better utilized to focus on patient care and other priority tasks. Some providers have quoted how it helps them improve in-person clinical time with individual patients. Some are even able to see additional patients improving access to care.
Improved provider work-life balance
Many providers have quoted that utilizing an AI medical scribe allows them to get home early or on time, allowing them to spend more time with family, especially their children. Some providers are also able to indulge in leisure activities, practice their favorite sport, etc. This has a positive impact on their profession as well; it improves their productivity and boosts their career longevity.
Improved operational and clinical efficiency
AI scribes help reduce manual errors, understand medical terminologies, and improve the accuracy, efficiency, and overall quality of documentation. All of this boosts the operational and clinical efficiency of a healthcare practice.
What is Sunoh.ai?
Trusted by 60,000 providers nationwide, Sunoh.ai is the first EHR-agnostic, advanced AI solution to facilitate a groundbreaking shift in patient care. It listens to patient-provider conversations to help document clinical information accurately and efficiently. It is the first AI medical scribe to facilitate order entries, including lab orders, radiology orders, and referrals, and more. Also, it generates multimodal notes besides traditional SOAP notes.
It functions across different specialties, such as vision, dental, rheumatology, and more. It also summarizes conversations between bilingual providers and their patients speaking different languages. It is a cost-effective solution that is easy to adopt, and the technology is accessible through multiple devices, making it an effective interoperability solution available in the market.
Let’s see what Sunoh.ai users have to say
Dr. Scarlet Y. Herrarte Fornos, Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, HHM Health, says,
“Sunoh.ai has truly been a game-changer. I typically receive around 250-400 labs daily. With Sunoh.ai, I can review my lab inbox much faster, facilitating better clinical decision-making.”
She further adds “It has also improved my patient interactions, which is especially important with young patients. Ultimately, the time-savings have really improved my work-life balance, allowing me to finish work on time and spend quality time with my family without carrying work home.”
Jill Richmond, a family nurse practitioner at Central Virginia Health Services, states,
“Unlike other AI scribe technologies we’ve used that would take a day or so to provide a summary, Sunoh.ai generates a draft summary after the visit. The innovative AI technology allows me to see many more patients now and focus better on patient care. The accurate and timely documentation allows me to easily review and complete work before leaving the practice every day.”
Michael D Richmond, DO, clinical director of provider recruitment and regional clinical officer at Central Virginia Health Services, adds,
“Sunoh’s advanced AI solution assists me to prepare for a patient visit by simply dictating some notes before I enter the patient visit room. Sunoh.ai was easy to adopt and use with no intense training required. The accuracy and quality of documentation is remarkable and highly professional as it recognizes medical terminology.”
Trey Davis, director of information systems at Sun Life Health, shares,
“The Multilingual AI scribe significantly enhances the speed and accuracy of capturing patient stories, especially in a bilingual context. Last month, we conducted 300 visits in Spanish with the multilingual feature. One of our providers can add four more patients to the schedule with time savings and reduced burnout. Sunoh.ai has transformed how we deliver care at Sun Life Health.”
To learn more about such success stories and schedule a demo, visit Sunoh.ai today.
