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Small backstory and a question for you. My fiancée is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Recently, we were having dinner with a few of her colleagues, and they
by danpat 13y ago
Small backstory and a question for you.
My fiancée is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Recently, we were having dinner with a few of her colleagues, and they were complaining about the overwhelming number of new medications coming to market, and how they could never remember all the interactions, what to use for what, which ones were new, which had been retired, etc, etc.
As a CS person, I piped up and suggested, tongue in cheek, that the computers were going to take their jobs. This led to a healthy discussion about the human practitioners role in a time when the amount of information they're expected to know is rapidly expanding.
What's your take in the future role of the human in diagnosing and prescribing in a situation like this?
- mhurron 13y agoDoctors offices already have something similar, at least for interactions.
- girvo 13y agoSo does my pharmacy, interestingly enough.
- tzm 13y agoTechnically, it's inevitable. Information will be more actionable. http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/watson_in_healthcare.shtml http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/watson_in_healthc... Practically, I think the role of humans will be to create a more human experience and to provide specialized knowledge centers.