Inside STAT: Hospitals tap AI to nudge clinicians toward end-of-life conversations

(MIKE REDDY FOR STAT)

As a few hospitals and clinics deploy cutting-edge artificial intelligence programs to help with palliative care, physicians using these systems are grappling with how to integrate an algorithm with such big implications into their complex and frenetic workflow. STAT's Rebecca Robbins spoke with 15 clinicians, hospital executives, and AI experts to learn how these models — which generate calculations to spur clinicians to have end-of-life conversations — are being deployed and how they may be received by patients and providers if used more widely. The goal is to trigger important talks that may otherwise be ignored. “A lot of times, we think about it too late — and we think about it when the patient is decompensating, or they’re really, really struggling, or they need some kind of urgent intervention to turn them around,” Stanford physician Samantha Wang tells Rebecca. Read more here.