Steve Berkowitz

The War Against Preventable Medical Errors

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Steve Berkowitz

Preventing Medical Errors: An SOS to Artificial Intelligence It has been almost 25 years since the shocking landmark study from the Institute of Medicine “To Err is Human” (1999). It stated that preventable errors were responsible for up to 100,000 deaths in the USA each year. It was mind-boggling to imagine how much harm our well-intended… Continue Reading >>

Steve Berkowitz

What Is the Future of AI in Healthcare? In my previous blog I discussed the first step in the critical analysis of artificial intelligence in healthcare—an operational or working definition of artificial intelligence. I would now like to take that definition and take the next step—develop a descriptive model of AI that would illustrate the… Continue Reading >>

Steve Berkowitz

Hardly a day goes by when there isn’t some story in the news about artificial intelligence (AI). We are bombarded by the media with topics both inspiring and terrifying. This is particularly true in healthcare. We read how artificial intelligence will drastically change the practice of medicine, nursing, our entire healthcare infrastructure, etc. The word… Continue Reading >>