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S1 Ep144: The AI scribe era is here, with Robert Wachter, M.D., and more
Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribes have become the fastest-adopted physician technology in recent memory. At UCSF, 70% of physicians now use one daily. At Kaiser Permanente, more than 7,000 physicians used them across 2.5 million patient encounters in just over a year. But what does the evidence actually show, and what are practices getting wrong?
In this feature episode of Off the Chart, Medical Economics Associate Editor Austin Littrell goes deeper on the AI scribe era, alongside Medical Economics' March-April 2026 cover story: Take note: The AI scribe era is here.
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