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Ambient scribing technology can significantly improve operational efficiency and physician workloads.gettyFor the past few years, ambient AI tools have received a largely warm reception in healthcare settings. As the technology was designed to passively listen to physician-patient conversations and automatically generate a draft clinical note, it has slowly proved itself in both increasing operational efficiency and helping doctors mitigate “pajama time,” a term that is colloquially used by physicians in reference to the time spent drafting notes and finishing clinical documentation after hours. A paper published in JMIR earlier this year confirmed this sentiment: “ambient AI scribe use was associated with a statistically significant reduction in on-shift documentation time (P