EMR data is as you note, useful for some types of information but sadly lacking in it's ability to deal with information useful for practicing physicians. I am appalled at the unmitigatd worship of AI when AI is unable to deal with anything that can't be put into words to be fed into an algorithm. The art of medicine is in the thoughts of physicians thinking about an illness, thoughts which may well never get into words, much less into an EMR. So AI, whatever it's abilities, will always miss the real foundation of good medicine.
EMR data is as you note, useful for some types of information but sadly lacking in it's ability to deal with information useful for practicing physicians. I am appalled at the unmitigatd worship of AI when AI is unable to deal with anything that can't be put into words to be fed into an algorithm. The art of medicine is in the thoughts of physicians thinking about an illness, thoughts which may well never get into words, much less into an EMR. So AI, whatever it's abilities, will always miss the real foundation of good medicine.