2022 Year-End Review-AI: Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Accelerate in Healthcare
12/22/22 Healthcare Innovation – Year-End Review-AI: Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Accelerate in Healthcare
Amid the challenges of calendar year 2022, one of the bright spots was the acceleration in artificial intelligence-related activity—both clinical and non-clinical—in healthcare.
“Careful examination of the sepsis tool implementations have found that, when Suchi Saria’s team at Bayesian Health looked closely at the success levels of sepsis-alert algorithms, they found that the actual rates of improvement in intervention turned out to be far more modest than they appeared at first glance.
In fact, she said, ‘I’ve seen incorrect evaluation. People measured sepsis for mortality, then deployed the tool, then used billing code data, and evaluated. But it looks as though you’ve improved mortality, but there’s a dilution effect.’” In other words, it’s turning out that clinician and clinical informatics leaders must necessarily test out and recalibrate any algorithms developed elsewhere, in their own organizations, since, as Patterson told me, clinicians document inside their own organizations’ electronic health records in individual ways.
