Hot take: AI is a wide umbrella term used in a wide variety of systems and networks. The use of it itself in The Pitt isn't the same as ChatGPT and Al-Hashimi is getting unfairly treated due to the immediate distaste of any AI mention.
What she did is little different from speech to text that most people use. I genuinely do not think people understand just how much time is spent in healthcare charting and doing paperwork. AI has been used in healthcare for many things (see everyones favourite story of the japanese AI used for a bakery now getting used to identify cancer cells) and frankly, bringing an hour worth of charting down to, say, twenty minutes is huge.
Is it suitable for an ER? Depends, it would be a case by case basis and in a trauma 1 centre it'll be lots of more serious cases that taking an extra minute or two to set up that app will be used better elsewhere. Mix in noise interference because most ERs are busy and loud and well, that's gonna cause more issues,
Would this go hard in other medical specialities? Absolutely. A lot of AI IS wrong. It is often unnecessary, and I am in no way condoning AI. We see it with the reports of how AI use is continually going down because of how inaccurate or inefficient it really turns out to be. This, in my opinion, is an entirely different deal.
