Digital Pharmacist Digest - 👉 Behavioral nudges in the EMR, the data-informed manifesto, and more

Hiya 👋

Welcome to another edition of the digital pharmacist digest!

A lot has been written on ChatGPT and AI advances recently with the almost magical outputs from the tools. There is justified caution, especially deliberate consideration when applying it within healthcare. It's important we focus on how we safely apply these game-changing tools into society. This includes considering how we incorporate these tools to augment our work and life activities. And always be mindful and adjust accordingly to unexpected impacts. For example, participants who used Codex, a fine-tuned version of GPT-3, generally produced code that was less functional and secure, yet they expressed greater confidence in it.

How exciting is it to live in a time with such amazing advances!

Thanks for reading,
Kevin

📖What I'm reading

🩺💻 Health informatics - Behavioral "nudges" in the electronic health record to reduce waste and misuse: 3 interventions

Interruptive alerts can come at the cost of high cognitive burden and workflow disruption, leading to alert fatigue. Less well studied is the design of the EHR itself—the ordering provider’s “choice architecture”—which “nudges” users toward alternatives, sometimes unintentionally toward waste and misuse, but ideally intentionally toward better practice. The authors incorporated 3 nudges into the EHR to varying degrees of success in reducing erroneous decision-making and mitigating waste and misuse.

🤖 Data and Artificial intelligence - Manifesto for the data-informed

A set of values for an organisation wanting to be more data-informed:
1. Conviction around a purpose rather than searching for meaning in numbers
2. Setting verifiable goals rather than vague aspirations
3. Company-wide familiarity with metrics rather than outsourcing to “data people”
4. Active testing of beliefs seeking support for intuition
5. Accepting probabilities rather than thinking in absolutes

👨‍💻 Work life - 22 Lessons Learned in 2022

I enjoy reading other people's insights from their self-reflections. "We all need more intellectual sparring partners" is the lesson that resonates with me the most.

👨‍💻 Product management - 20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

One of my favourite reflection pieces I've read. I'm not a software engineer, but find these could apply to product management and any career in general. My favourite - "One of the biggest differences between a senior engineer and a junior engineer is that they’ve formed opinions about the way things should be"