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AI scribes save 15,000 hours—and restore the human side of medicine

By American Medical Association  
   June 12, 2025

When The Permanente Medical Group rolled out ambient augmented intelligence (AI)—also known as artificial intelligence—scribes in late 2023, it was with an eye toward solving one of medicine's most entrenched problems: documentation burden. One year and more than 2.5 million patient encounters later, the results are in, and they paint a compelling picture of how AI can help restore the human side of medicine.

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