Career QuartermasterApr 23, 2024
Alex Hanna

The @nationalnurses guidance on AI in the healthcare setting is excellent. Talk about immediately seeing through the hype!

https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/artificial-intelligence

AI’s impact on nursing and health care

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly expanding in all workplaces, and hospitals are no exception. Without our collective action, AI’s expansion will accelerate the hospital industry’s race to the bottom and drastically limit nurses’ ability to provide quality care.

National Nurses United
Apr 22, 2024 at 10:09pmWeb
Show threadEthan MarcotteApr 22, 2024
@alex Oh this is *searingly* good. Thanks for boosting it, Alex.
Show threadAlex HannaApr 22, 2024
@beep Right? After that LN panel, I had to see if they had published anything on this. And they did not disappoint.
Show threadEthan MarcotteApr 22, 2024
@alex I am *deeply* sad I headed home before that panel, I heard nothing but rave reviews about it.
Show threadAlex HannaApr 22, 2024
@beep I can't wait till the recording is out.
Show threadEthan MarcotteApr 22, 2024
@alex —oh shit I didn’t hear it was recorded, this is the best best news
Show threadCareer QuartermasterApr 23, 2024
@alex thank you for this. As someone working at the intersection of healthcare education and employment, and trying to get peers to see short and long term harms, this is extremely helpful to reference.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Apr 23, 2024
@alex 💙 Nurses
Show threadCaveDaveApr 23, 2024
@alex I can't believe that this is a thing to be said
Show threadQybatApr 23, 2024

@alex @nationalnurses Meanwhile in the Land of Tea and Biscuits, the government is shoveling money at AI diagnosis oracles.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/21-million-to-roll-out-artificial-intelligence-across-the-nhs

Not that I'm against new tech for cost savings in medical care, but maybe wait until it's a bit more mature and throughly studied before you start betting people's lives?

£21 million to roll out artificial intelligence across the NHS

The new technology will help diagnose patients more quickly for conditions such as cancers, strokes and heart conditions.

GOV.UK
Show threadAlex HannaApr 23, 2024
@Qybat @nationalnurses Ugh, yes. The NHS has unfortunately gone all-in.