Impact of Ambient Artificial Intelligence Documentation on Cognitive Load

Despite significant advancements since the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err is Human, which highlighted that preventable medical errors contributed to up to 98,000 hospital deaths annually,1 reducing preventable harm remains a critical challenge. A central factor contributing to medical errors is the high cognitive load experienced by clinicians, arising from the need to process a vast volume of complex patient data while fulfilling excessive administrative and regulatory requirements with clinical documentation.