Effect of AI Assisted Documentation in Primary Health Care on Time Saving, Patient Satisfaction and Health Care Provider Satisfaction

Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: AI-assisted Documentation

Treatments: Other: AI assisted documentation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06836258

GA-RCT-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background There is currently no research evidence from randomized trial settings on the effectiveness of AI-assisted documentation. The aim of this study is to provide evidence regarding cost-effectiveness, professional experience, and patient experience.

Design Physician consultations participating in the study are randomized into AI-assisted and traditional documentation groups in a 1:1 repeated crossover design. The goal is to include approximately 1,000 consultations per group.

Methods Professionals will be asked to provide their own assessment of potential time savings, and the time spent on documentation will be measured using technical data from the documentation tools (cost-effectiveness). Additionally, professionals will complete baseline and follow-up surveys (professional experience), and patients will be sent a survey following the consultation (patient experience).

Full description

The study will include all acute and non-acute visits for the enrolled clinician. The study excludes sector-specific work and specialized consultations, such as maternity clinics, memory clinics, intellectual disability consultations, as well as non-Finnish-language consultations and interpreter-assisted consultations. The system has been primarily designed to monitor discussions between two individuals, and therefore, consultations where a guardian or companion accompanies the patient are also excluded from the study.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinician practices at a site in Western Uusimaa wellbeing services county where AI-assisted documentation tool is available

Exclusion criteria

• none

The study will include all acute and non-acute visits for the enrolled clinician. The study excludes sector-specific work and specialized consultations, such as maternity clinics, memory clinics, intellectual disability consultations, as well as non-Finnish-language consultations and interpreter-assisted consultations. The system has been primarily designed to monitor discussions between two individuals, and therefore, consultations where a guardian or companion accompanies the patient are also excluded from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

AI-assisted documentation vs regular documentation

Other group

Description:

All subjects (clinicians) will be in a single arm. However, appointmets of each clinican will be randomized into AI-assisted and traditional documentation groups in 1:1.

Treatment:

Other: AI assisted documentation