Nurses have had mixed feelings about the rise of artificial intelligence in healthcare, from excitement over its potential for improving care to apprehension about it coming in between them and patients.
Here are eight AI clinical use cases ranked by the percentage of nurses who say they "very" much improve patient care or workload, according to a November report from consultant McKinsey & Co. that surveyed more than 5,000 nurses:
1. Enhancing medication management: 74%
2. Eliminating tasks to increase job satisfaction: 73%
3. Improving productivity: 72%
4. Patient education: 71%
5. Clinical education: 70%
6. Streamlining administrative tasks: 70%
7. Synthesizing progress notes and medical records: 68%
8. Improving diagnosis accuracy and clinical decision support: 66%