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Researchers at the University of Edinburgh searched three databases on March 20 for work on how ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribes are being implemented. They screened 1,333 results and were left with 27 articles. Thirteen were empirical studies.
The narrative review, published Sept. 3 in BMJ Digital Health & AI, mapped those articles against the Non-Adoption, Abandonment, Scale-Up, Spread and Sustainability (NASSS) framework, a model for evaluating whether a health technology survives contact with the organization that buys it.
Research on ambient scribes has concentrated on accuracy, documentation burden and time saved, the authors write. How the tools change clinical work, patient disclosure and the function of the note itself has drawn far less attention.