AI RESEARCH

Consumer-to-Clinical Language Shifts in Ambient AI Draft Notes and Clinician-Finalized Documentation: A Multi-level Analysis

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2603.18327v1 Announce Type: new Ambient AI generates draft clinical notes from patient-clinician conversations, often using lay or consumer-oriented phrasing to patient understanding instead of standardized clinical terminology. How clinicians revise these drafts for professional documentation conventions remains unclear. We quantified clinician editing for consumer-to- clinical normalization using a dictionary-confirmed transformation framework. We analyzed 71,173 AI-draft and finalized-note section pairs from 34,726 encounters.