Our AI-Powered Future

Several months ago I began using the AI-powered web-based productivity and note-taking application Notion to develop personal projects. Based on this experience, I've identified how AI could enhance our workspaces through the development of a unified, AI-powered collaborative database that could:

Help staff navigate our complex system more efficiently
Provide quick access to departmental procedures, best practices, and bits of curated advice from colleagues with intimate knowledge of their related part of our system
Offer a consistent source of information across the organization
Assist with drafting, editing, generating ideas, and automating routine tasks
Adapt to the accelerating pace of healthcare advancements

My goal is to develop an AI-assisted interactive database that integrates with existing resources and processes, providing a stable foundation to move forward as healthcare and technology evolve at an accelerating pace.

Key Concepts Discussed Herein:

The widespread integration of AI agents across various platforms and services, with specific discussion of Notion's AI implementation
A vision for collaborative database building across ACC and then our system, where colleagues could contribute their knowledge and expertise to a shared interactive and engaging database
Discussion of potential challenges

The Historical Speed of Tech

AI technology is unfolding before us at astounding speeds, and I am sure Epic will eventually put together and release an integrated AI-powered update that will fundamentally transform how we interact and work with the EHR. Even if they release this update in stages to give everyone time to adjust, it's still going to feel like we're superglued to a rocket.

Though we may not fully grasp what's about to unfold (even after it happens), we should focus on what we do know: we'll have an understanding and hands-on experience with the systems underlying the new AI-powered ones, because they're going to be built from our own lived experiences and expertise; we just need to be involved so we can shape it and walk with it as it grows into our lives and the world around us.

Hello, Fellow Human

The new system that emerges will simply perform our processes at speeds and volumes we humans could never match (this part was rephrased by an AI edit. 'we humans'? I think it thinks it's blending in.), fundamentally shifting the way we live our lives, and how we provide and deliver healthcare.

This next generation of healthcare workers will excel at using systems that present high-volume information filtered through automated decision trees and AI agents.

However, they may also have less hands-on experience with the foundational skills that AI uses to build responses: research, review, data compilation, critical thinking, and independent care planning. Our future workflow will be fundamentally different, requiring an agile partnership (again, not my phrasing; I went with 'dependency') with AI rather than the traditional approach of building a comprehensive knowledge base via chart review before or while engaging with patients' needs.