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The Government was the one that forced clinicians to go to electronic medical records. While it is good at collecting data (and billing) it has pulled clinicians away from the bedside (and patients) and sat them in front of a computer where they are forced to click boxes. It has taken much of the human element away from healthcare. So, no, I did not read the government page you linked because I already know what they are pushing (reducing clincians thus saving money). If you want to completely lose the human element of healthcare then believe what they are selling, sit back and watch and reap the “benefits”.
This is just my humble opinion of course.

Clinical medicine here. We use tablets, and it's not much different than using a notepad. The majority of data entry happens later, same as it did before EMR.

We vastly prefer EMR over the previous route, and helps track information and changes between facilities and reduce errors.
 
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Clinical medicine here. We use tablets, and it's not much different than using a notepad. The majority of data entry happens later, same as it did before EMR.

We vastly prefer EMR over the previous route, and helps track information and changes between facilities and reduce errors.
Hospital or outpatient? Asking because I have always worked in a hospital setting (almost 30 years) and have never heard a clinician say they prefer EMR. So much state and regulatory guidelines that have to be met (and monitored). As far as reducing errors I haven’t seen much evidence of that either in literature or personally with my involvement in patient safety. We’re still dealing with the same issues at the same levels, sometimes higher, than we were before. I could see where the outpatient setting could be different though as it does not involve the same bedside environment.
 
Hospital or outpatient? Asking because I have always worked in a hospital setting (almost 30 years) and have never heard a clinician say they prefer EMR. So much state and regulatory guidelines that have to be met (and monitored). As far as reducing errors I haven’t seen much evidence of that either in literature or personally with my involvement in patient safety. We’re still dealing with the same issues at the same levels, sometimes higher, than we were before. I could see where the outpatient setting could be different though as it does not involve the same bedside environment.

Teaching hospital, so many of the clinicians came in after the EMR transition. I'm sure that skews what I'm hearing.
 
Teaching hospital, so many of the clinicians came in after the EMR transition. I'm sure that skews what I'm hearing.
Ahh, that does make sense. It’s the same way with nurses who were brought up with both scenarios. Appreciate your perspective!
 
AI is still in it's infancy, and is being aggressively marketed as the best thing since slice bread to shift sales of phones - with customers actually falling for it. When they get home and realise their new shiny £1200 phone doesn't actually make Star Treks 'Holodeck' pop up in their living room, or a roast dinner doesn't materialise when they talk to their phone and then check their oven to see it's empty - they see the penny has dropped!

Absolutely no use or interest to me at this point-in-time.
 
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Tbh, i am using a s24 ultra as my spare device and while ai is fun and such, after a period of time where the honeymoon phase is over , to me its just too gimmicky and you rather do certain task urself rather then wait the ai to do it for you . While its nice to have but over the time i dont think you need it much as you think.
But then again we are suckers for new stuff lol and trying to justified the need of it.
 
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I use AI a lot for work. Saves me some time coding. The results are far from perfect but usually easily fixed. it is better than starting from zero or trying to find something similar through google.

Not sure if i'll have any use for it on the phone though. At least in early versions.
 
Doesn't fit my workflows. I have the macOS beta but I have not used any of the AI features. It's just so hard to break habits after doing everything a certain way for years. The only thing I use is rewriting emails to C-Level on ChatGPT via my browser
 
I had a little exercise I wanted to see how the new AI photo editing features on 18.1 would handle. I had already done what I needed on my Galaxy Book but decided to give my iPad Pro 11 M4 a run.

Photo of front yard - remove several bushes and add in a couple of Quaking Aspen and a couple of boulders. This is for an HOA submittal.

18.1 handled most of the bush removals. It had one issue where the bush overlapped one of the stone columns that frame my porch. It tried to expand the width of the column. Another where two bushes overlapped each other and it tried to remove both bushes. Didn’t matter if I drew with the pencil, my finger, or scrubbed, it tried to remove both.

When I tried to paste in the Aspens, total fail. It would either not paste or when it did it also restored the removed bushes - all of them.

It is a beta and obviously it needs further work. Still, it was a nice test of the capabilities.
 
Tbh, i am using a s24 ultra as my spare device and while ai is fun and such, after a period of time where the honeymoon phase is over , to me its just too gimmicky and you rather do certain task urself rather then wait the ai to do it for you . While its nice to have but over the time i dont think you need it much as you think.
But then again we are suckers for new stuff lol and trying to justified the need of it.
So, in other words, work reaps benefits better than laziness.
 
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