Experts on AI Tell Nurses: ‘You Need to Embrace This’

MedPage Today October 9, 2023
Shannon Firth

— And no, you will not be replaced by a robot

WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine certainly has advantages, but it’s not “magic,” experts warned, so it’s important for providers to understand the upside and downside of AI.

“For the bedside clinicians, I think it’s important for them to … recognize that artificial intelligence is not some type of magic that just happens in ‘the cloud,'” said Gregg Springan, MSN, BSN, vice president of clinical services and a nurse executive for Diligent Robotics, during a panel at the American Academy of Nursing 2023 Health Policy Conference.

Even “the cloud” is a data center in a physical building, he said. “I think in that spirit … the idea that...

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