ER doctor rethinks AI's real opportunity: faster patient context, not triage
DevToD4 · x · 2026-08-15
A developer focused on healthcare AI has publicly revised his view: he originally believed AI's value in overloaded emergency rooms was filtering out unnecessary visits, but now doubts that's the main opportunity.
For patients who are older, have complicated histories, take multiple medications and keep returning, he argues the bigger win is getting the doctor to the relevant context much faster — pointing AI at accelerating information retrieval rather than visit triage.
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