Nurses say no to AI πŸ₯


“It is deeply troubling to see Kaiser promote itself as a leader in AI in healthcare, when we know their use of these technologies comes at the expense of patient care, all in service of boosting profits,” Michelle Gutierrez Vo, a co-president of the California Nurses Association (CNA), said in a statement at the time. “We demand that workers and unions be involved at every step of the development of data-driven technologies and be empowered to decide whether and how AI is deployed in the workplace.”

National Nurses United, the CNA’s parent union, has repeatedly warned about AI being used for a variety of applications in healthcare, which range from patient monitoring to nurse scheduling to automated patient charting and using predictive algorithms on patient outcomes and diagnoses. The union wrote in a blog post that using AI for monitoring patients and flagging potential changes in their state would force nurses to respond to “excessive, if not faulty, alerts” while overlooking patients whose conditions are at risk of getting worse.

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