Becker's Healthcare April 24, 2024
Nurses took to the streets of San Francisco this week to protest the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. But what were their specific complaints?
In general, they said they were demonstrating against the “untested” technology and the risk it poses to patient safety, and how AI should not replace nurses.
The hundreds of nurses who protested April 22 in front of Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center also told local media outlets which programs in particular concerned them.
Some nurses objected to a platform in the Epic EHR that determines nurse staffing based on real-time charting. Cathy Kennedy, RN, neonatal intensive care nurse at Kaiser’s Roseville (Calif.) Medical Center and a nursing union leader, told the San Francisco Standard...
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