Designing for Health: Kevin Dufendach, MD and Andy Spooner, MD | Cincinnati Children’s | AI and documentation reductions, and why pediatricians make good CMIOs

Nordic Chief Medical Officer Craig Joseph, MD, chats with two doctors from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, neonatologist and biomedical informaticist Kevin Dufendach, MD, and CMIO Andy Spooner, MD. Their discussion centers around their early days in the NICU, why so many pediatricians end up also working as informaticists, and the role of AI in reducing documentation.Show Notes:[00:00] Intros[05:30] The early days of clinical informatics[09:02] The exhaustion discount[16:20] The future of progress notes[21:32] The promise and perils of AI in healthcare[32:36] The differences between informatics specialists and generalists[39:14] Why pediatricians think like informaticians[40:48] Well-designed things that bring Dr. Dufendach and Dr. Spooner joyFor a full transcript and more info, click here.