Reinventing Clinical Decision Support

In our latest book,Reinventing Clinical Decision Support: Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Diagnostic Reasoning, Paul Cerrato and I explore the promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning for improving clinicians ’ ability to make more informed diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 2:“AI is a once-in-a-generation transformative technology. As such, expect its impact to be on the scale of the advent of electricity or the Internet,” says Jean-Claude Saghbini, Wolters Kluwer Health.(1)“Artificial intelligence and machine learning are set to transform healthcare. From front line care delivery, including triage, clinical decision support and patient experience to back office operations, such as billing and revenue cycle, algorithms and emerging technologies are already proving th eir value,” according to a recent report from Healthcare Information Management Services Society (HIMSS). (1)Both enthusiastic visions suggest that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are poised to transform medicine and bring in an era of cost effective patient care. But these predictions have to be weighed against less optimistic views, including those that suggest AI will disrupt the workforce in healthcare and other industries, causing many to lose their jobs to soullessalgorithms and robots.Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, for example, believes that: “For now, most of the skills that demand a combination betwe...
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