Digital Pharmacist Digest - 📝 AI and discharge summaries, insights from start up life

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 and 🤖 Artificial Intelligence - ChatGPT: the future of discharge summaries?

ChatGPT demonstrates the power of this next generation of chatbots powered by large language models. Although the use of chatbots within health care is by no means novel, having previously been applied to areas such as triage, this next generation aims to advance the field significantly through its generative capacities. Health care is an industry that has significant scope for automation, especially in areas of documentation. We should be reactive to these advances in technology and explore potential use cases and feasibility of using chatbots such as ChatGPT across diverse areas in health care. Proactive early adoption of this technology at a central level might also reduce the risk of issues in the future; parallels can be drawn with interoperability issues due to differing electronic health records adopted at a local level. The question for the future will be how, not if, we adopt this technology.

🩺💻 Health informatics and 📈 Data - Making machine learning matter to clinicians: model actionability in medical decision-making

"If we define actionability as a characteristic of models that reflects their ability to augment medical decision-making when compared to clinician judgment alone, how might actionable ML augment medical decision-making?"

💭 Work life and Productivity - Start-up life = hard won insights. Here are my top 10 for this year

Top 10 insights for the start-up life. My favourites are “To maximize learning, you need to doubt your knowledge” and “The cost of rapid improvement is repeated failure. Doubt and discomfort are the entry price of excellence.”

👨‍💻 Technology - Password strength explained

"The only realistic way to get a strong password is having it generated randomly. But we are also very bad at remembering some gibberish mix of letters and digits. Which brings us to passphrases: sequences of multiple random words, much easier to remember at the same strength." For example, four random words joined together.