Jefferson Health is embarking on a bold commitment: Give clinicians back more than 10 million hours by 2028. “The intent is to be able to reduce what they’re doing in terms of paperwork, manual processes, and allow them to get back to why they went into medicine, which is to help people,” Baligh Yehia, MD, president of the Philadelphia-based system, told Becker’s.

Jefferson physicians and advanced practice providers working in ambulatory settings all have access to ambient listening technology, which he said has already led to significant reductions in time spent documenting. With satisfaction levels high, the system is now working to give nurses access to the tool, as well as introduce it in inpatient care, starting with hospitalists and emergency department clinicians.

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