AI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong in NHS records

Drop one word and 'no nerve damage' becomes multiple sclerosis. That's the shortcut hospitals bought.

A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read “null demyelination”, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That case appears in a warning from Healthwatch England, the statutory patient watchdog, reported by the Guardian today. […] This story continues at The Next Web

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