This is really interesting. Elon Musk has another company called OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company. OpenAI built a neural network that was designed to teach *itself* how to play a very difficult video game and then the AI played against the best players in the world on stage in front of millions of people. What’s really interesting is that the AI used strategies that the humans had never considered and could not even initially understand. The implication for the ER is really interesting. Optimizing ED workflow is really a “game” in the same sense - you have two teams (providers/nurses/techs vs patients), with limited resources and functions, and each side has specific goals (for patients it is to get out quickly and have their healthcare issue resolved, for hospitals/doctors it is to keep the patient alive and get them out as quickly as possible by using the fewest resources). Imagine if somebody created a video game that mimicked the peopl...
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