A clinical scribe saves doctors time but makes occasional factual errors. What must be true before you launch?
Make your call first. Use the published answer and rubric to examine your reasoning when you are ready.
Case briefRead the inputs, then make your call
A clinic is evaluating a note-drafting assistant. The pilot is fictional; establish the jurisdiction, data relationships and intended use before recommending a release.
| Pilot | 300 encounters; manual documentation averages nine minutes per encounter. |
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| Assisted workflow | Reviewing and correcting the draft averages three minutes per encounter. Determine whether later correction work is captured. |
| Critical errors | 18 drafts contain clinically significant errors; two of those errors survive the clinician review step. |
| Data path | Audio, transcripts and drafts may pass through external processors. Agreements, logging, recording permissions and retention have not yet been established. |
| Proposed expansion | Leadership wants to write accepted notes to the clinical record and expand to more specialties. |
Your task. Make a release decision. Calculate the time and error measures, specify the workflow controls and identify the evidence needed to expand.
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