Jennifer Hamilton, MD PhDNov 1

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.

#LawsuitBait

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@jeneralist Back when I worked for Epic, a lot of days I felt like I was working at the command of hospital administrators, against the doctors and nurses. We were actively increasing the bureaucratic workload, so that someone sitting on ass all day could hit the golf course an hour earlier.
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Show threadJoe StewartNov 2

@log @jeneralist

The thing that got me about EMRs is their core purpose: to enable billing. Everything else is suborned to that, everything.

Even the scheduling UX sucks….