• GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    If you read the article is was nurses that were essentially doing administrative work and not actual patient functions. The stuff that AI absolutely should be replacing. It seems though that at least from the story, the nurses weren’t able or weren’t needed at that hospital for patient care.

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Even if that’s true, use AI for the paperwork it can be used for, retain some nurses for paperwork then reduce nurse to patient ratios for the remainder of nurses that were doing paperwork and aren’t doing it any longer. Ratios are critical for quality of care

    • Elextra@literature.cafe
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      19 hours ago

      They are 100% remote. Correct. Best use is to keep the nurses and up the case load.

      The healthcare systems that are really greedy will outsource the job to a different state or nation. Fortunately I think those are in the minority. None I’ve heard of in CA