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5.8percent
Allied health clinicians in the 2025 Australian study reported that their productivity increased by an average of 5.8 percent while using an AI scribe.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Productivity increased by an average of 5.8 %.”
Impact of using an AI scribe on clinical documentation and clinician-patient interactions in allied health private practice: perspectives of clinicians and patients, Kerrie Evans et al., Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 2025, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1016/j.msksp.2025.103333)- What it measures
- The measure comes from the clinicians' own surveys, not from billing or appointment records.
- What it does not show
- Self-reported, in a non-randomised study, with several authors linked to the company that supplied the scribe. Treat it as a signal, not a measured gain.