Laura Little’s Post

Kaiser nurses are protesting the use of AI in healthcare settings… This is interesting! Fear of AI integration is real, but what if it could help allow nurses to do more of the things that they actually want to do outside of administrative work? Healthcare organizations need to value workers and show them how AI won’t ‘take their jobs” or we’ll have more demonstrations like this. As we’ve seen with the new Federal AI policy that I’ve been creating videos about, AI should be an adjunct to care; not a replacement. There will need to be oversight and humans working with the tech? What are your thoughts on this? #ai #unions #nurses #rn #healthcare #healthtech #jobs #kaiser

As a systems thinker, I'm worried about AI, not only in HC but the workplace in general. We're within a couple of years of AI likely creating mass unemployment across the planet, with no safety nets for most. Here in the US, big business will jump for joy as societies and the masses suffer. There are, of course, even greater risks longer term. If we look at the accelerating woes of nurses and physicians in today's HC system, it is the insatiable need of big business for evermore revenue and profits at the expense of the masses, including staff and patients. Staff, too, has systems problems, ever-worsening through constant cost cutting. Thankfully, we can train staff to fix the systems locally and heal in the process #3DHealthcare. Leaders aren't greedy, although there is certainly some of that. It's the system itself. Leaders can't do something good for people that adversely affects profits or they are punished by the system in some way. However, some early adapters are waking up to a new potential for HC: #ALovingOrganization with #LovingSystems that optimizes profits while taking good care of staff and patients. I'm becoming more optimistic. 💙 Apurv Gupta, MD, MPH

Sara Vaezy made a great point about AI in healthcare on a16z Bio + Health's podcast, Raising Health. We can divide AI use cases into a 2x2 with 4 domains: clinical, patient/consumer, back office, and workforce/administrative. The clinical quadrant is by far the highest risk due to the severe consequences if we get it wrong, and the inherent complexity of the work. There are multiple exploratory studies underway and the research cycles will (hopefully) take many years before they reach the level of safety necessary to be applied in general practice. In the meantime, how can we work with nurses to address the remaining high-value quadrants - like optimizing scheduling to reduce burnout, managing care coordination, optimizing processes, etc? The nurses I know are some of the most dedicated and passionate professionals who care deeply about their patients. If they see a benefit to their patients, they will adopt AI. But we need to earn nurses' trust first, and use cases like removing the burden of administrative overhead may be the safest steps we can take to start.

This is the reality of when those developing technologies for #healthcare again fail to engage with nurses who are ultimately responsible for all of the outcomes of patients. This is a failure by the #AI industry - one that clearly underscores that those who feel they can simply say they have a great solution - demonstrate it to investors - raise millions of dollars - but fail to understand that without engaging and the support of nurses - all of this will fail. What a disaster of an opportunity that simply could have been averted if you would simply ask the nurses. If you are an #AI company with technology that will impact nurses and do not have a Chief Nursing or Chief Clinical Officer - shame on you. Get with the times - hire a nurse to your executive team and try to save this national conversation before you further unravel our nations largest healthcare workforce - nursing. #NursesOnLinkedIn #HealthcareOnLinkedIn

I was saying this over the weekend, in healthcare, technology is an enabler not a driver of a solution. It is an important nuance to understand. Only then will you create impactful solutions that are supported by key stakeholders. #commercialization #healthcare #AI

I have spoken before about the use of AI in healthcare. There is no substitute for a real, trained, experienced person when it comes to health. AI is amazing, but as a technology it is in its infancy. Trusting it to do anything more than the absolute basics is unethical in my opinion, and it has no place in healthcare. In health, often the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and healthcare professionals develop an intuition over time. I often speak about the third eye and third ear in our training - hearing what's not being said! Equally important is the current epidemic of lonliness and isolation. Human connection has never mattered more, but technologies like AI only contribute to the problem - "the robot will see you now"?? I am encouraged to see healthcare workers speaking up with their concerns, our health systems are broken enough as it is. Although there's a strong case for replacing many of the multiple layers of bureaucrats and admins upstairs with robots.... now there's a thought!

This is a great reminder that change in healthcare is inevitable, but you must bring the stakeholders to the table to ensure the success of the change. The world of healthcare is always changing, but as an industry we have not always been very good about gaining input from those that have to use the technology or care for the patients at bedside. Time for a different perspective on implementing changes to improve success of new technologies and improve the care and outcomes ones of our patients. #healthcare #newtechnologies #stakeholders #change

This is about #staffing. Use of #AI is sold to hospital administrators as a way to hire fewer nurses and reduce the highest cost in an operating #budget. #Nurses are no more “anti-tech” than #doctors are. We clinicians see the power and promise of technology, but have seen repeated (mis)use of technology that *could* serve humans - patients and clinicians - in #healthcare but instead is deployed to serve budgets at the expense of humans. Before you read this as “nurse are anti-tech”, dig deeper. What drives that distrust? What is the past history? Even in 2018 in Boston, recall #nursing strike against different #technology in the #NICU or #neonatal #ICU, akin to a pager, that would enable a #nurse to cover more patients from a greater physical distance. Overall, speaking as both a patient and a #doctor, having a nurse be physically close to a patient does matter, both for #safety and for #patientexperience. Reducing bedside presence of nursing by #AI is not how we should be deploying AI. At my mother’s end-of-life, parts of which were a literal horror show, much of what drove bad behaviors that was nursing shortages and hourly cost of travel nurses. The nurse manager knew each hour my mother lived was more expensive travel nurse time. My family - like many families were in #COVID - was bullied to sign a #DNR and then to disconnect. This would save the hospital money with less nurse pay. (I can’t rule out bias or -isms as well.) This was at the most stressful moment of our lives, after the system had already failed to protect my mother. Having been in the executive suite myself, and with 70% of hospital board members from banking and finance, I know too well how hospitals are run and how hospital administrators think and decide. There are a lot of places to apply AI humanistically. Rather than frame this as nurses protesting AI, understand the past history as well as the incentives of AI in hospitals. Nurses are concerned about patient safety.

More than 9 in 10 nurses in a recent survey agree that repeated needlesticks negatively impact the patient experience. They are calling for alternatives to improve care and workflow. BD has a One Stick Hospital Stay aspiration and works with health systems to ensure the right device is used in the right patient at the right time. Check out more survey results below. https://lnkd.in/gH85Yz8e #PatientExperience #NeedlestickChallenges #OneStickStayVision #BDemployee

What are some recent innovations in nursing practice, and how can they be integrated into patient care? #NursingInnovation #HealthcareTech #PatientCare #Telehealth #AI #WearableTech #NursingExcellence #FutureOfNursing