Automated medical scribes (also called AI medical scribes, AI scribes, ambient voice technology (AVT), digital scribes, virtual scribes, and ambient AI scribes) are tools that transcribe medical speech, such as patient consultations and dictated clinical notes. These tools produce summaries of consultations as well, aiming to reduce the administrative burden on clinicians and improve efficiency in documentation. Automated medical scribes based on Large Language Models (LLMs, commonly called “AI”, short for “artificial intelligence”) became increasingly popular in 2024.
The privacy protections of automated medical scribes vary widely. While it is possible to do all the transcription and summarizing locally, with no connection to the internet, most closed-source providers require that data be sent to their own servers, securely processed, and the results sent back. Some retailers use zero-knowledge encryption (meaning that the service provider can’t access the data). Select AI scribes do not use patient data to train their AIs, or rent or resell it to third parties. Meanwhile, few providers have published safety or utility data
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