HIMSS24 UNC Health CMIO: Clinicians and AI Must ‘Synergistically Work Together’

MedCity News March 26, 2024
Katie Adams

AI is meant to have a synergistic relationship with clinicians rather than replace them, pointed out David McSwain, chief medical information officer at UNC Health, during an interview at HIMSS24. In his view, both humans and AI are fallible, but their errors are usually of a different type — so both should be working together to reduce the overall error rate.

In the past decade or so, there has been a lot of debate about how to responsibly integrate AI into clinical care. When having these conversations, it’s essential to remember that AI is meant to have a synergistic relationship with clinicians rather than replace them, pointed out David McSwain, chief medical information officer at UNC Health, during an interview...

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