My work #EMR at now has integrated #AI that summarizes a patient's chart whether I want it to or not. This week it told me the wrong reason for admission, the wrong hospital course, and the wrong medications as compared against the human-written discharge summary. To review it and find the error took 3 minutes; to document the error and report it took another 10.
Anchoring bias exists. What we read stays with us, truth or lie, influencing decisions.
And I can't turn it off.
@jeneralist Shit. Do you mind if I ask which EMR it is? I know Epic was working on a new AI feature but the other vendors probably were, too. Perfectly understandable if you don’t want to share.
Context: I work for a company that ingests EMR data for hospital clients, and want to make sure our data team knows this stuff has arrived.
@jmelesky Got it in one!
I don't know whether the AI summary is an Epic built-in or a 3rd party product, though.
@jeneralist Gotcha, thanks! Yeah, Epic has a complicated ecosystem, so not surprising it’s hard to tell where it originated.
Here’s hoping the people making the decisions recognize the limitations of these technologies soon.
Jennifer Hamilton, MD PhD
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