AI tools need to go beyond point solutions
Healthcare AI is being adopted more rapidly than other industries—primarily due to economic and labor needs—and tools have now matured beyond individual point solutions that accomplish single goals. Today’s AI technologies need to solve multiple functions and challenges and demonstrate enterprise-wide value, rather than being part of a patchwork of AI tools.
When choosing AI solutions for clinical teams, consider how they can support multiple needs for teams and help achieve goals faster to avoid shadow tool usage. An example of this is combining fast, GenAI clinical information searches with the professional need for clinicians to earn credits for continuing education.
How CME supports organizational goals
Acquiring continuing medical education (CME) credits is essential for clinicians to stay on top of the latest practices in their field.
And this professional development goes beyond helping individual clinicians. Collectively, it can positively impact a healthcare organization and help create a more productive working environment by teaching skills that improve patient care, like listening with empathy, coaching on team-based care, and creating healthy team cultures. These skills and techniques can have a tangible impact on the bottom line through better health outcomes, improved patient experiences, and higher worker retention.
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) lists six key proven value benefits of CME. These include:
- Improving patient safety through improving physician performance.
- Controlling spending through reducing unnecessary medical procedures and prescriptions and reducing readmissions.
- Increasing physician recruitment and retention, as well as decreasing burnout.
- Protecting physician learners through independent education without commercial influence.
- Using teams to improve care through effective collaboration towards quality improvement goals.
- Expanding preventive care through improving knowledge of life-saving interventions.
