AI can’t replace doctors. But it can make them better.
A machine can collate environmental data, genetic data, and patient history way better than I can. Several years ago Vinod Khosla, the Silicon Valley investor, wrote a provocative article titled “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?” Khosla argued that doctors were no match for artificial intelligence. Doctors banter with patients, gather a few symptoms, hunt around the body for clues, and send the patient off with a prescription. This sometimes (accidentally, maybe) leads to th
eHealth and the role of a ‘chief nursing information officer’
For eHealth to progress, ‘chief nursing information officer’ role is needed TORONTO – The creation of specialized chief nursing information officers (CNIO) is needed to advance clinical adoption in hospitals and healthcare organizations, according to new recommendations from the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) and Canada Health Infoway. RNAO and Infoway released the Adopting eHealth solutions: Implementation Strategies best practice guideline (BPG) earlier th
