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S2E18: The Need for Guardrails with John Lee, MD, Emergency Physician, Digitician, and former Clinical Informaticist and CIO with host Dr. Nick. Do you remember Big Blue beating Garry Kasparov in 1997. That was chess and considered a milestone at the time. But progress continued to be made, better tools and knowledge, and IBM made news again with “Watson” – the Jeopardy-winning AI computer that beat former champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in 2011. What followed was another gold rush to the nirvana of AI and Machine learning solutions to solve everything, everywhere. The reality was different from expectations and while the envelope was pushed there was much to be disappointed about in the trail of failures left in the wake of that hype. The trajectory for chess is informative for where this technology might go with healthcare. It is the combination of both human and computer based systems that creates the most creative and winning Even in the use case of academic paper summarization, John found the tool to be useful but still in need of human oversight teams. Your better pill to swallow is to open the door to the use cases and exploration of this technology, with guard rails and explore how using AI and human expertise together can improve patient care by removing the huge amounts of friction we find in the workings of our healthcare system. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio.” Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen