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title: "New AI Tool Helps Improve Sutter Patient-Doctor Visits | Sutter Health"
description: "Sutter Health is using Abridge's generative AI tool to help physicians reduce after-hours documentation time so they can focus more on patient visits."
url: "https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/research-innovation/this-ai-tool-is-helping-improve-patient-doctor-visits"
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# This AI Tool Is Helping Improve Patient-Doctor Visits

Sutter Health is using Abridge's generative AI tool to help physicians reduce after-hours documentation time so they can focus more on patient visits.

March 27, 2024 by Liz Madison

![This AI Tool Is Helping Improve Patient-Doctor Visits](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/sutterhealt962c-sutterhealt8fce-production57cc-4860/media/Project/SutterHealth/Vitals/research-and-innovation/A-Southeastern-Asian-female-doctor-sits-inside-an-exam-room-and-points-to-her-computer-whil-8ed1d33f.jpg?h=1404&iar=0&w=2136 "This AI Tool Is Helping Improve Patient-Doctor Visits")

While “pajama time” may sound relaxing, the term has a different interpretation by doctors. It is the time doctors spend after hours — and usually away from their families — on clinical documentation in patients’ electronic health records. While essential and important, clinical notes take time to input and can detract from patient-clinician interactions.

Learn more about how [Sutter Health’s use of Abridge’s generative AI tool](https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/sutter-health-partners-with-abridge-on-generative-ai-solution-to-improve-patient-physician-experience) for clinical documentation will help groups of its physicians by supporting focused face time with patients and lessening administrative work burdens.

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