Clinical trial NCT06778148: Abridge AI Pilot Test
Official title: Abridge AI Pilot Test
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Clinician Experience
Clinician Burnout
Keywords: Ambient AI
Clinician burnout
Lead sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-01-16
Enrollment: 232
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Randomized controlled trial with waitlist
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: We are piloting a new technology (Abridge) that uses artificial intelligence to listen to clinician-patient office visits and then document the interaction in the electronic health record.

Detailed description: This study will evaluate pilot implementation of the Abridge Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform (Abridge) in UCHealth clinics. Abridge licenses will be deployed to 116 physician and advanced practice clinicians to accomplish the following goals:

1. Determine if Abridge meaningfully impacts clinician documentation time and burnout or stress
2. Determine whether to scale Abridge beyond the pilot

We will evaluate clinician experiences using Abridge, particularly with regard to documentation time and clinician burnout or stress. Study findings will explore value added in integrating Abridge into clinician practice, and guide decision-making for entering into a commercial agreement with Abridge. This pilot will also inform best practices for scaling Abridge to a broader user base across UCHealth outpatient practices.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

-clinician (physician, advance practice professional, or licensed mental health professional) employed by UCHealth

* See clinic patients at least three half-day sessions per week. (Half-day sessions seeing or supervising patients with residents and fellows will NOT count toward the weekly total. Half-day sessions seeing patients with a medical student CAN count toward the weekly total, however, Abridge can only capture conversations where you are physically present with patients.)
* Own an iOS smartphone and be willing to download and use the Epic Haiku smartphone app during clinic visits

Exclusion Criteria:

* Trainees including residents and fellows
* PT/OT, ED, maternal/fetal, pediatric, dental, eye specialties

Primary outcomes:
measure: Burnout - High emotional exhaustion
timeFrame: Baseline, 2, 4 and 8 months
measure: Burnout - High depersonalization
timeFrame: Baseline, 2, 4 and 8 months
measure: Burnout - emotional exhaustion and depersonalization
timeFrame: Baseline, 2, 4 and 8 months
measure: Time in notes per appointment
timeFrame: Baseline, 2, 4 and 8 months
measure: Adoption
timeFrame: 2, 4 and 8 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Reach
timeFrame: 2, 4 and 8 months
measure: Clinician experience
timeFrame: Baseline, 2, 4 and 8 months
measure: Time documenting
timeFrame: Baseline, 2, 4 and 8 months
measure: Operational efficiency
timeFrame: Baseline, 2, 4 and 8 months
measure: Adoption
timeFrame: 2, 4 and 8 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Aurora
country: United States
facility: UCHealth
state: Colorado
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