Ninety-Six Ways to Measure a Scribe: Fragmented Evaluation of Ambient Scribes in Healthcare

Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribes have moved rapidly from experimental pilots to enterprise-wide deployment across health systems, promising reduced documentation burden and improved clinician experience. While research evaluating these tools has expanded quickly, there are no agreed-upon protocols or standardized metrics for assessing their performance, making it difficult to compare findings or cumulatively synthesize evidence across studies. Across 54 recent evaluation studies, we identify ten evaluation dimensions and 40 distinct metrics, operationalized in 96 different ways-35

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