❓ What does AI mean for the future of work in healthcare, alternatives to product managers, and more

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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

What do technology and AI mean for the future of work in health care?
🤖 Artificial Intelligence and 🩺💻 Health informatics

"Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked fears about the potential threat to jobs in many industries, including health care...

The right technologies, properly implemented, can not only extend human capabilities, but also enable staff to switch their time and attention to tasks where humans add more value – supporting workforce capacity at a time of huge pressure...

We present a framework to help navigate this shifting landscape, showing how technologies can variously substitute, supersede, support or strengthen human labour."

EHR giant Epic's success with AI, detailed by its EVP of R&D
🤖 Artificial Intelligence and 🩺💻 Health Informatics

A conversation with Sumit Rana well worth watching discussing principles for implementing AI in healthcare (keep a human involved, ensure the user knows when AI has been used, and implement regulatory and AI safety continuous monitoring), and the benefits of using AI within the EHR to assist healthcare workers write progress notes, reply to patient messages and surfaces desired clinical information.

Alternatives To Product Managers
👨‍💻 Product management

"my work is all about sharing the practices that try to give you the best chance of product success...In fact, for early stage startups, I’ve long argued that what matters most are the specific individuals involved. They matter more than whether the people are co-located or remote, or what particular roles and responsibilities each person has, or the product vision, or the techniques they use to discover and deliver their product....

If you define product management, as I do, as being responsible for the value and viability of what gets built, then there really isn’t an alternative to product management – someone is doing this one way or another...

I have long warned that if you have feature teams, then eventually the company’s leaders (if they’re paying attention) come to realize that the people titled product managers are really project managers (aka program managers or delivery managers)...

However, there is another alternative that I think in the right context can be extremely effective: this is when the product management responsibility is covered by skilled product leaders. The most famous example of this working at scale is Apple."

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