'Nurses Are Essential' to AI Integration in Healthcare

For Dr. Erich Huang, Duke Health's chief data officer for quality, one issue often overlooked when discussing AI in healthcare is the importance of the user experience. "It's not just an abstract Westworld brain sitting out there," Huang says. "It has to be well integrated with clinical workflow, and nurses are essential to that." With the Sepsis Watch early warning program, Huang says, nurses were able to apply their professional experience to kick off the cascade of actions that would follow an AI-produced alert. "One of the big issues with electronic health records is fatigue from alerts," he says.