Digital Pharmacist Digest - 📪 Oversight for AI in healthcare, AI in clinical diagnosis and more

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📖What I'm reading

🩺Patient Safety and 🤖 Artificial Intelligence - The imperative for regulatory oversight of large language models (or generative AI) in healthcare

"The regulation of GPT-4 and generative AI in medicine and healthcare without damaging their exciting and transformative potential is a timely and critical challenge to ensure safety, maintain ethical standards, and protect patient privacy. We argue that regulatory oversight should assure medical professionals and patients can use LLMs without causing harm or compromising their data or privacy."

🩺Patient Safety and 🤖 Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Diagnosis Opportunities, Challenges, and Hype

"...support from AI when integrated effectively into clinician workflow can potentially improve quality of care, including diagnosis. However, in its current form, the advantages of AI do not effectively account for certain real-world aspects of making a clinical diagnosis. These factors include fundamental clinical skills required for clinical diagnosis, such as history taking and physical examination, accuracy of EHR data, uncertainty in accuracy of a final diagnosis, and in-person empathy and communication."

🩺💻 Health informatics - Patient empowerment: what is the role of technology in transforming care?

• While the vast majority of people use some form of health technology and find that useful, they are not totally satisfied by what is currently on offer.

• Across all age groups more than 7 out of 10 (72 per cent) would use technology to avoid a hospital admission, with a similar proportion happy to use technology to monitor their health and share information and data with their doctors.

• Many individuals are not confident about using technology to manage their health, leading to a fear that they may be locked out of healthcare if they cannot access or use digital tools.
  

🩺Patient Safety and 💭 Work life - Workplace interventions to improve well-being and reduce burnout for nurses, physicians and allied healthcare professionals: a systematic review

“Mindfulness-based practices were adopted in 20 studies; the remainder used meditation, yoga and acupuncture. Other interventions promoted a positive mindset (gratitude journaling, choirs, coaching) while organisational interventions centred on workload reduction, job crafting and peer networks. Effective outcomes were reported in 29 studies, with significant improvements in well-being, work engagement, quality of life and resilience, and reductions in burnout, perceived stress, anxiety and depression.”

🎈Something fun - The Office Design Strategies of Amazon, Samsung, Adobe and Others | WSJ Open Office

A video exploring the offices of major companies like Amazon, Samsun, Adobe and others.

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