Nurses in the United States continue to voice concerns about artificial intelligence and its integration into electronic health records (EHR), saying the technology is ineffective and interferes with patient care.
Nurses from health systems around the country spoke to National Nurses United, their largest labor union, about issues with such programmes as automated nurse handoffs, patient classification systems and sepsis alerts.
Multiple nurses cited problems with EHR-based programs from Epic and Oracle Health that use algorithms to determine patient acuity and nurse staffing levels.
"I don't ever trust Epic to be correct," Craig Cedotal, RN, a paediatric oncology nurse at Kaiser Permanente Oakland (Calif.) Medical Center, told the nurses' union. "It's never a reflection of what we need, but more a snapshot of what we've done."
He said the technology does not account for the hours of preparing and double-checking the accuracy of chemotherapy treatments before a pediatric patient even arrives at the hospital.
Source: Becker's Health IT, 14 June 2024
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