Digital Pharmacist Digest - 🖥️ approaches to low value care, human factors in EMMs, Bing with AI

Hiya 👋

Welcome to another edition of the digital pharmacist digest!

Recently, I've been listening to the fantastic audiobook "Storyworthy" by Matthew Dicks, which is all about crafting and sharing engaging, memorable stories. It's a great resource for anyone looking to improve their storytelling skills, whether you're hoping to wow your friends with your next dinner party anecdote, or you're looking to create more presentations and meetings at work. The ability to tell a compelling story is a valuable skill that can help you engage with your audience and make a lasting impression. I highly recommend having a look at "Storyworthy"

Thanks for reading,
Kevin

📖What I'm reading

📈 Patient Safety - Top-down and bottom-up approaches to low-value care

A reminder to consider both policy top-down and tailored, localised strategies as a bundle to address low-value care.
"Many local, often single-centred context-specific solutions work in one setting but not in other settings, and conversely, without support from clinicians, stand-alone policy interventions risk failure. Effective de-implementation initiatives will likely require strategies or components that are delivered from both a top-down (from policy makers, administrators), and bottom-up (support for and from healthcare providers) perspective and require active engagement from all stakeholders to reduce low-value care"

🩺💻 Health informatics - Human factors and safety analysis methods used in the design and redesign of electronic medication management systems: A systematic review

Insightful commentary on significant potential to apply more safety-oriented human factors and safety analysis methods to support electronic medication management system design given the high-risk nature of medication management in complex hospital environments, and the potential for harm due to poorly designed electronic medication management system.

💭 Work life & Productivity - How to Talk about Yourself in the Best Possible Way

An oldie that I’ve reread recently with actionable steps to become more confident in telling your story - and, everyone has a story to tell.

🤖 Data and Artificial intelligence - Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why

“First of all, OpenAI cares about safety. In some sense, their entire inception was about how to think about safety and alignment in AI. And so, we share that”. A quote that is especially relevant applying any AI or clinical analytics within healthcare.