Veterans Affairs Trial Finds Human Clinic Notes Still Beat 11 AI Scribe Vendors

A Department of Veterans Affairs trial pitting 11 AI scribe vendors against three human-written clinic notes across five simulated patient cases found humans produced higher quality notes across every domain and case, according to results published in Annals of Internal Medicine. The study underscores that despite rapid marketing claims, current AI medical-scribe products still fall short of trained human clinicians on accuracy, completeness and clinical reasoning. The findings will complicate hospital procurement decisions and may slow the headlong rush to replace human documentation labor with generative AI in healthcare settings where errors carry life-and-death consequences.