Real Talk About AI in Healthcare and Intelligent Medication Management

It’s rare to hear straightforward discussions about AI in healthcare. Too often, it’s either hyped as a magic wand to solve every challenge or dismissed entirely as inappropriate for the healthcare setting. The reality lies somewhere in between: AI is navigating the typical technology lifecycle, with early adopters refining it for future mainstream use.Given this reality, John Lynn found it really refreshing to listen to some realistic talk about AI in healthcare on a recent Epic Med Management Fireside Chat called “From Data to Decisions: The Vital Combination of AI and Human Expertise in Patient Care,” hosted by DrFirst. Colin Banas, M.D., M.H.A., Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, led a great discussion about the reality of AI in healthcare today, including where AI is already making an impact and where it still needs work. Two experts joined Dr. Banas to dive into the topic: David Wetherhold, M.D., Chief Medical Information Officer at Scripps Health, and Dana Darger, RPh, Director of Pharmacy at Monument Health.

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It was great to hear about a real use case where AI is making a difference in medication management. Plus, along with discussing this solution in action, the panelists discussed how they’re approaching other uses of AI. I was particularly fascinated by their discussion of how important it is to ask AI the right questions and scale its answer to the correct persona. If you ask the wrong question, you are likely going to get the wrong answer—whether from a human or from AI.

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