Ask a clinical AI tool for a management plan, and you’ll often get a long list of tests, medications, and referrals. As someone who’s worked on reducing unnecessary fingersticks and coagulation testing, I wonder how much of that list will help the patient—and how much will just add work and cost.
A new NEJM AI study found that AI-recommended tests and referrals cost roughly three times as much as physicians’ documented plans. Some additions caught care the physician had missed. Others were harder to justify. The findings raise important questions about how we’re asking these tools for help and what happens when their suggestions reach the order screen.
👉 Full breakdown in my latest Huddle+ article here.
