At the Red Hat Government Symposium in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 9, Amanda Purnell, the director of data and analytics innovation at VA, said AI can make it easier for clinicians and care teams to do more “meaningful” work and less administrative work.
“Where I see AI being adopted within the VA is in reducing administrative burden – those just pain points,” Purnell said at the event. “I like to say, because it’s true, that there is no physician, clinician, psychologist who ever got into that field saying what I really want to do is fill out a bunch of forms, and I want to search through piles and piles of data to find what I really need.”
“So, what clinicians and care teams are most readily adopting models for is reducing the administrative work of doing the clinical work so that they can spend the time doing what they really love, which is caring for and interacting with people and helping them to live their highest quality life,” she added…
