A Nurse’s Perspective on AI and Patient Care
Summary
While the advanced technology helps connect ambulances with hospitals in real time and gives rescuers new tools to locate survivors, it does not have an impact on what’s required for a first responder to put others’ lives before their own and it is not a substitute for compassion. People use AI technology every day when they ask Alexa to play a song or they utilize hypertargeted GPS map apps to get to a new restaurant or even to a patient’s home. Home health agencies are beginning to use natural language processing (NLP) and AI to improve patient care and support and ease the tough job of nurses. AI enables home health agencies to quickly compile and analyze data from multiple sources faster and more efficiently than ever before. With this powerful data processing and analytics informing their actions, nurses suddenly have an enhanced ability to clearly see the entire patient picture and more effectively develop an appropriate plan of care.