Clinician and simulated patient perspectives on ambient AI scribes in psychiatric consultations: a qualitative study (opens in new tab)

BackgroundDocumentation burden contributes significantly to psychiatric clinician burnout, with psychiatrists spending an average of three hours per workday on administrative tasks rather than direct patient care. While quantitative studies demonstrate that ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribes reduce workload and improve documentation quality, the experiential perspectives of clinicians and standardized patients (SPs) remain unexplored, particularly in psychiatry where the therapeutic...