Digital Health February 14, 2024
As AI systems become ‘pervasive’, the risks and opportunities increase. Digital leaders must put people first at all stages of design and implementation, writes Simon Noel
Over the last 20 years of working with digital, I have had interactions with diverse types of clinician decision support systems. The majority of these have been at a basic level, using algorithmic rules to use discrete data to present the user with guidance based on certain scenarios.
The systems included real time guidance within critical care workflows, guidance to promote appropriate blood transfusion, admission rules for targeted assessments and care plans, as well as VTE (venous thromboembolism) risk alerts. The common thread is that, despite providing real time clinical support, they were not...