A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Ambient Artificial Intelligence to Improve Health Practitioner Well-Being
In a real-world randomized implementation, ambient AI reduced health care practitioners' work exhaustion/interpersonal disengagement but did not significantly increase professional fulfillment. Documentation time decreased without compromising diagnosis, billing compliance, or note quality. (Funded by the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT06517082.).
Authors
- Anne Gravel Sullivan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7972-6907)
- Peter Kleinschmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1672-6845)
- Joel Gordon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7619-9384)
- Brian W. Patterson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4584-3808)
- David Kunstman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2816-2175)
- Kayla K. Lemmon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9965-5351)
- Mary Ryan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9137-1549)
- Frank Liao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7577-7530)
- Graham Wills (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3284-873X)
- Felice Resnik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1494-1357)
- Margaret Leaf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8076-7110)
- Leigh A. Mrotek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6559-934X)
- Majid Afshar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6368-4652)
- Tom Brazelton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2840-3285)
- Mariah A. Quinn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7534-739X)
- Elizabeth S. Burnside (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6600-435X)
- Stacy Rasmussen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2202-0911)
- Heidi Twedt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7091-0152)
- Cherodeep Goswami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9805-4694)
- Kirsten Abramson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8491-3138)
- Josie Hintzke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6840-1340)
- Jason Dambach (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2354-230X)
Institutions
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- UW Health University Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- NEJM AI
- Published
- 2025-11-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1056/aioa2500945
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.89