# Doctors Stop Typing as AI Takes Over the Chart

> AI scribes draft patient notes, saving doctors 15,700 hours yearly.
- Title: Doctors Stop Typing as AI Takes Over the Chart · Pymnts
- Summary: AI scribes draft patient notes, saving doctors 15,700 hours yearly. Downstate Medical Center uses AI to draft patient notes, cutting documentation time for…
- Keywords: downstate, ai scribes, patient notes, documentation hours, healthcare, sunrise, business, finance, Doctors, Stop, Typing, Takes
- Source: Pymnts — https://pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/doctors-stop-typing-as-ai-takes-over-the-chart
- Author: PYMNTS
- Published: 2026-09-25T23:17:30+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: downstate, ai scribes, patient notes, documentation hours, healthcare, sunrise, business, finance
## Downstate Medical Center Pilot
University Hospital at Downstate uses AI scribes to draft notes for 900+ patient visits since May 2026.

> The Brooklyn academic medical center is the first to use Sunrise Thread AI, which listens to the conversation and generates a structured clinical note inside the Sunrise electronic health record (EHR).
## Health Systems Save Time
Permanente Medical Group logged 2.5 million uses and 15,700 hours saved, while Intermountain Health cut note time by 27%.

> The American Medical Association found that surveyed AI scribe programs saved about 15,000 clinician hours across participating health systems.
## AI Shapes Hospital Billing
The same recording that spares doctors from typing starts shaping hospital payments and coding.

> From there, it feeds continued care, coding and billing.
## Vendors Expand AI Tools
Athenahealth added Microsoft Dragon Copilot alongside Abridge and Suki for inpatient and emergency care.

> A note the physician approves once and the system carries through coding and billing is a different product from a faster transcript.
## Doctors Report High Demand
Downstate’s chief information officer called the tool 'more robust than others while offering greater ease of use'.

> Dilip Nath, chief information officer at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, said the hospital found the tool 'more robust than others while offering greater ease of use.'
## Key takeaway

Downstate Medical Center uses AI to draft patient notes, cutting documentation time for doctors.