Afshar ambient AI (well-being)
A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Ambient Artificial Intelligence to Improve Health Practitioner Well-Being
In 66 ambulatory care practitioners, an ambient AI scribe drafting visit notes reduced work exhaustion and interpersonal disengagement compared with documentation without ambient AI.
A randomised implementation showing that ambient AI eases the exhaustion half of burnout and shortens documentation time without degrading note quality, billing codes or diagnosis capture — the safety question that matters to health systems. Small, unblinded and survey-based for its primary outcomes; the professional-fulfilment co-primary was null, the work-outside-work saving vanished once extreme days were trimmed, and 24 weeks is short for a well-being endpoint.