Hospitals are investing more money in AI and Nursing groups are claiming that this sacrifices quality of care.
Hospitals claim that the AI is well researched and does not compromise quality of patient care.
The issue appears to be related to staffing, and it does raise the question if AI is used in patient care decisions, and as a result hospitals can decrease staffing. What does this mean for patient care?
There are valid arguments on both sides, as AI could be implemented on patient monitoring equipment providing more timely alerts and action items to staff resulting in better response times for patients and reducing the number of staff needed to monitor the equipment. The question is how trustworthy is the AI and how will this change the landscape of humans vs machines involved in the healthcare process.
At the moment, this appears to only be impacting hospital staffing for nurses, but when do hospitals, and large groups start to use remote patient monitoring that is managed by AI to improve patient wellness and reduce staffing by Doctors and other medical providers?
As payment paradigms shift from fee for service to fee for wellness, corporate entities will look to increase revenue and decrease costs associated with healthcare delivery. Will this eventually result in Doctors losing their jobs to AI? With the projected shortage of doctors this will probably not happen in the short term, but what are the long term implications of AI in corporate medicine?
Here are some interesting articles on the topic
Nurses Push Back on AI Adoption at New York Hospitals - Newsweek
Kaiser Permanente nurses protest to call attention to layoffs, AI use in hospitals - CBS Sacramento
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