ICU diary-keeping: There’s an AI for that
AI in Healthcare December 12, 2024
Intensive care units around the world use daily diaries to track patients’ emotional as well as physical ups and downs. Many find that keeping these helpful resources can add to nurses’ already-heavy workloads. How might generative AI help?
Researchers at University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany count the ways.
“Several factors speak in favor of an AI-generated ICU diary, such as time savings, the standardized development of entries and the retrospective reconstruction of a diary from medical and nursing records,” write senior author Peter Nydahl, PhD, RN, and colleagues. “AI-generated ICU diaries could be beneficial to patients and their families, helping them cope with a challenging time in their lives,” they add.
The paper is slated to run...