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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes.