Before Adopting AI, Change the Language Used with Patients

Publications Category : Emergency Medicine

Author(s): Mark Mosley

Project Description : The interdigitation of artificial intelligence and philosophy may seem an odd esoteric juxtaposition for the common mundane task of getting a patient's history in the emergency department. On one side, the electronic health record, Dragon, electronic scribes, large language models, and other manifestations of machine-based AI have created unparalleled data collection and document assimilation . . . On the other side, we are still using an archaic language and the traditional pre-2007 rubric of structuring the patient's history, which is neither patient-centered nor appropriately incorporative of our recent understandings of neuro-social-biology, social determinants of health, and a world radically changed by the internet and AI . . . It is time to shift the paradigm.