On Monday morning, hundreds of nurses from the National nurses told me the United states. demonstrated outside of the Kaiser Permanent in San Francisco, to express their concerns about the use of the growth of the artificial intelligence in the health care system. While the hospitals, and researchers to become more and more enthusiastic about the integration of IT, in caring for patients, nurses are warning about the potential risks associated with this technology.
The concerns of the trade union of nurses
Michelle Gutierrez Importance of the co-presidents of the Association of Nurses of California (CNA), it said in a statement that the use of technology, based in one of Kaiser comes at the expense of the patient's care, the main purpose of raising revenue.
National nurses told me the United states., the union of the parents, the CNA's, it has repeatedly warned about the use of artificial intelligence in a wide range of applications, health care, ranging from the monitoring of the patient in the planning of the nursing staff to the automatic creation of the medical data and the usage of the algorithm is built-in to the results and the diagnosis of the patient.
The risks of IT at the time
According to the union, and the usage of IT in order to monitor the patients, and to report the possible changes in the status will require nurses to respond to the alarms, to register, or not true, by the neglect of patients, terms and conditions, are at risk of deteriorating. The nursing staff argue that the decision of life or death, in connection with care, treatment, and staff, and the patient may not be taken, without trial, human, and critical thinking skills. A lot of the signs indicative of the condition of the patient, such as the smell of the breath, the tone of your skin, appearance, or behavior, it is often not detected by the intelligent man, and algorithms.
Regardless of the concerns that have been raised, and HE and the new technologies and analytical, of course, that they have a vital role to play in improving the health care team. They can, for example, to assist in the reduction of the burning of the doctors, and the lack of staff. However, according to the nursing staff, the introduction of the IT will also be more likely to reduce their dependence on caregivers of the human, by automated most of the work and thus increasing the pressure on them, thus resulting in a decline in the quality of care on all fronts.
The use of the Kaiser Permanent
Kaiser Permanent use of a monitoring system for HIM to be called the “Advance Alert” to analyze the data automatically to the patient every hour or so. The company claims that the system is saving around 500 to be in a year. In response to the protests of the kind, a spokesperson for the Kaiser Permanent, said that means HE's not making decisions for medical and health practitioners, and members of the care team are always at the centre of decision-making with the patient. The company says that it believes IT could help the doctors and staff, and to improve the experience of its members, thus ensuring that the results are fair and unbiased.
The adoption of IT in the health care sector
Kaiser Permanent, is not the only company that promotes the use of artificial intelligence in the health care system. Many providers of health care are getting more and more eager for the start of the use of this technology, especially in order to manage the analysis of the imaging, medical, and analyze large amounts of data.
A case study of the recently discovered that the radiologët that is integrated to work with, HE demonstrated performance of the highest as compared with the radiologët. The National institute of Health, the U.S. has implemented several programs in order to make their data accessible to the world man.
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