Digital Surgery and Telemedicine · 15 April 2026

AI Scribes Cut EHR Time for Surgeons and Boost Visits

Adopting AI-powered scribes can streamline electronic health record tasks for surgical practices and enhance patient volume.

Clinicians using AI scribes spent 13.4 fewer minutes on EHRs weekly and reduced documentation time by 16 minutes.
On average, they saw 0.49 more patients per week.

Surgeons may benefit from integrating AI tools to improve efficiency and patient throughput.

Benefits were most pronounced among primary care and advanced practice clinicians.

Journal Article by Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ (…) Mishuris RG et 28 al. in JAMA

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