Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried. (Washington Post)

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10. There has been continuous monitoring in hospitals for years

A stable person on a Med-surg ward with a chest tube isn’t going to be hooked up to continuous pulse ox in the first place, unless AI is going to pay for equipment for everyone. Every piece of equipment costs money. Continuous monitoring means the patient needs to be hooked up to monitoring equipment—although equipment is certainly getting smaller.

Now, I personally have dealt with or seen kinked chest tubes—it is unfortunately not that uncommon, to the point checking the tubing and canister is part of protocol upon hand off and part of assessment. Much better to prevent the problem in the first place, right? Relying on AI to identify a problem after it happens is bullshit practice and will open the world of lawsuits wider than it already is.

AI is the future, and it will bring positive as well as not so positive changes though