KnowBench: Effort Reduction as a Unified, Deployment-Grounded Benchmark for Clinical AI

Score clinical AI by how much of its draft doctors sign without editing.

97.99%

Aggregate Effort Reduction, clinical notes

Over one million signed encounters across thirteen specialties

How it works

Wrong yardstick
Clinical AI is scored by similarity to reference notes or rubric panels. These scores do not measure work saved.
Use the clinician's edits
Compare the AI draft with the signed version. The share of draft content kept unchanged is Effort Reduction.
High retention reported
Knowtex's notes kept 97.99% of tokens across one million encounters. Some companion statistics were withheld.

From the paper