Healthcare AI and Automation: Good or Bad?

There are so many challenges that we are currently facing in the world of healthcare, that possibly adding another one is overwhelming to think about. AI automation is still so new that it’s hard to tell what the exact impact will be. On one hand the automation will solve a lot of problems. It can stop a lot of human error and take mundane tasks off of healthcare’s shoulders. Thus helping lift the burden that so quickly leads to burnout. However, where does the automation end? The thought that a computer can do your job for you makes a lot of people worried that it lead to them being replaced. So let’s talk this out: is AI automation a good thing that will help or will it cause more problems? We reached out to the beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to hear the different lines of thinking on automation. Check out what they had to say down below! Lois Hester, Vice President of Customer Solutions at PerfectServe The word ‘automation’ is going to trigger different thoughts for different people, but the work we do with our partners revolves quite a bit around automating manual communication workflows that often led to frustrating and potentially dangerous care delays in the past. I’ll give one of my favorite examples to demonstrate. One long-time customer—a forward-thinking specialty hospital—came to us a few years ago to inquire about automating the delivery of critical lab results with our clinical communication system. Previously, a...
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