Digital Pharmacist Digest - 🕹️ AI in the hands of imperfect users, gamification in hospitals, and more

Hiya 👋

We’re back with another edition of the digital pharmacist digest!

Here are this week's links that are worth your time.

Thanks for reading,
Kevin

📖What I'm reading

🩺💻 Health informatics - AI in the hands of imperfect users

An excellent editorial highlighting the need to focus on the human factors using AI/ML in clinical practice, and approaches to nudge users towards more critical and reflective decision making using AI/ML. “Mitigating these mismatches can only be achieved by broadening our notion of user testing beyond its current focus on AI performance metrics and proximate usability to examine human and systemic factors shaping how AI systems are applied in practice by imperfect users in imperfect settings. Further, testing does not have to be limited to simply observing how individuals in various contexts interact with AI tools; we can also test how best to shape those interactions using existing insights from the behavioral sciences, as we discuss below.”

🩺💻 Health informatics - Effectiveness of gamified team competition as mHealth intervention for medical interns: a cluster micro-randomized trial

Fun gamification study to increase daily step count and sleep using medical interns as guinea pigs. Team competition increases the mean daily step count relative to the no competition arm. They also tried it to increase sleep duration but wasn’t statistically significant (JMOs need to party!).
Interestingly, team competition within an institution decreased the effectiveness. Which means you have to choose your opponents outside of your institution for it to be successful.
One possible explanation for the negative impact of intra-institutional competition on the causal effect of competition on step count was that perhaps interns felt less competitive within their institution relative to extra-institutional members because they see their fellow institution members as colleagues. The negative moderation of intra-institutional competition suggested avoiding intra-institutional competition assignment in the future application to maximize the competition effect.

🤖 Artificial Intelligence and 📈 Data - GPT is all you need for backend

A twitter thread demonstrating a hackathon winner’s use of ChatGPT to completely replace the backend with a large language model that can both run logic and store memory.

💭 Work life and Productivity - Seven incredibly non-intuitive things about growing your career

Seven useful insights when thinking about your career. My favourite being "We think strength is self-sufficiency— achievement without reliance on others. We think that if someone else gains, we lose. But intertwined, we all go further. This is the secret of Silicon Valley. Help others, ask for help, and collective strength multiplies."