Healthcare edition
Little care news this week, but there is a guide from your own professional body, plus two lessons on what AI does without oversight.
V&VN: use AI for the boring text first, not for care itself
The professional body has drawn up a step-by-step plan to cut admin work. It also sets out clear rules on patient data.
There is little news about your field itself this week. That is why this edition is shorter.
V&VN, the professional association for nurses and carers, has published a guide for using AI wisely on the work floor. The advice is to start small: summarising text, making templates, and rewriting messages in plain language. Leave critical processes alone for now. Once a pilot works well, scale it up carefully.
Background for subscribersYour own professional association, V&VN, advises using AI first for boring tasks: summarising, making templates, rewriting messages. Care itself stays out of scope for now. It's important never to put identifiable patient data into a public chatbot, and to only use versions with clear data agreements. You'll also notice that AI use in offices is becoming more normal, and that rules around big chatbots are getting stricter. Research into computing on encrypted data shows that privacy and AI could go together better in future.
Google lets you control Gmail, Docs, and Keep with your voice
Google is adding three voice features to Workspace. You can dictate a document, search your inbox by voice, and turn loose thoughts into tidy notes. It rolls out this week for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in Gmail and Keep, and for Pro and Ultra in Docs.
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