🤝 Barriers and facilitators to using digital health, collaborative intelligence between clinicians and AI, and more

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

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Kevin

📖 What I'm reading

Collaborative Intelligence to catalyze the digital transformation of healthcare
🤖 Artificial Intelligence and 🩺💻 Health Informatics

"Collaborative intelligence reflects the promise and limits of leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in clinical care. It involves the use of advanced analytics and computing power with an understanding that humans bear responsibility for the accuracy, completeness and any inherent bias found in the training data. ... This requires active clinician engagement with the technology, a general understanding of how the machine produced its insight, the limitations of the algorithms, and the need to screen datasets for bias."

"Neither a human brain nor an AI algorithm can achieve perfect accuracy and precision. Human operators can program systems with unbiased, fair data to generate insights and then use individual judgement to decide what comes next. End users must acknowledge the promise and limits of AI, recognize it will never have a moral compass, and take responsibility for the data used to train algorithms while interpreting the outputs fairly. Standards governing the use and protecting from misuse and harm resulting from this technology must be developed and used in clinical care. By recognizing the limitations of AI-enabled technologies, clinicians and patients can unlock the helpful use cases for these technologies to support better quality, more equitable care."

Barriers and facilitators to utilizing digital health technologies by healthcare professionals
🤖 Artificial Intelligence and 🩺💻 Health Informatics

The authors sought to provide "a summary of enablers and restraints to healthcare professionals’ coordinated and integrated use of digital health technologies"

"Our findings showed that infrastructure and technical issues, psychological barriers, and workload-related concerns are relevant barriers to comprehensively and holistically adopting digital health technologies by HPs. Conversely, deploying training, evaluating HP’s perception of usefulness and willingness to use, and multi-stakeholders incentives are vital enablers to enhance the HP adoption of digital interventions."

How Shopify’s anti-meeting, anti-mandatory-office experiment is going
💭 Work life and Productivity

What ‘digital by design’ means is we’re remote first, but to be clear, we still believe that in-person time has great value, so we have programs that encourage real-life connection in a few different ways.

“Most companies rely on the serendipity of people running into each other at the watercooler to come up with good ideas,” says Shopify’s chief operating officer and vice president of product, Kaz Nejatian. “That doesn’t seem like a reliable way to build the future—hoping two people with good ideas will get thirsty at the same time.”

There are three primary opportunities for employees to interact face-to-face. The first is called “Meetups,” which invites staff to participate in social events with other Shopify employees in the same geographical region, such as a series of barbecues and picnics that were hosted at public parks around the world this summer.

The second is called a “burst,” which Merola describes as a small-scale offsite, where the company covers the costs associated with bringing a small group together to work through problems over the course of a few days. In total, the company of about 9,200 staff expects to host 700 bursts in 2023.

Finally, earlier this year, Shopify announced its Port Local Access program, which opens its former office spaces—now known as “ports”—to any staff who want a place to work with all the classic office amenities.

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