Evaluate an ambient scribe for ED charting
On a busy shift every encounter costs me minutes of typing I don't have.
Observational study Needs a HIPAA agreement (BAA) Organization involvement
Source check: 2026-11-11 · Physician review: not yet recorded
The workflow
- Ask your department whether the hospital already licenses an ambient scribe (Epic AI Charting, Abridge or Suki).
- Get it turned on for your login and do the vendor's short training.
- Use it on straightforward encounters first and watch what it leaves out.
- Read and correct each note before signing.
Tools and cost
USD unless stated otherwise. Billing periods and eligibility matter. A tool listed here was not necessarily tested in the cited study.
Organization / sales contact
Organization contract required; scope not verified here.
Organization / sales contact
Organization contract required; scope not verified here.
Contact sales
Confirm BAA and features in your contract.
What the evidence supports
A retrospective single-center study of 10,344 ED encounters evaluated DAX Copilot integrated with Epic. Use was associated with 72.6 fewer seconds of on-shift documentation per encounter, but 9.1 more seconds after shift.
Primary study · Read the source ↗
Where it goes wrong
Adoption was voluntary and encounters differed between groups. This is an association, not a randomized comparison, and it does not validate Abridge, Suki or Epic’s separate native product.