From an "old guy" who has been in this business for a long time (about as long as Steve Shihadeh!) I have found some AI tools to be enormously useful. Use case #1: I am creating a guide for others to use -- a "how to" manual for reviewing health care vendor contracts. When I documented my parameters, I ended up with a result that shaved hours off the time needed to complete my finished product. Use case #2: I'm not good at creating pretty tables from Excel spread sheets, so I asked CoPilot to create one. In under a minute I received output It was nicer and more presentable than anything I could have created on my own. Use case #3: Needed a vendor comparison for a health system with a very complicated set of circumstances. Entered the parameters into the AI tool and received a thoroughly complete analysis from several perspectives. Back when I was a healthcare IT consultant, that kind of effort would have taken weeks to accomplish. Here it was done in minutes. Caution: all the AI output should be carefully reviewed. In some cases, it took a while to "ask" the right question to get the output we needed.
Steve Shihadeh - 4 days ago
We have used AI primarily for research and document creation. I use it often when I am preparing to meet a new executive to get a full picture of their background. Finally, it is just refreshing to do a search and not get 1000 ads.
From an "old guy" who has been in this business for a long time (about as long as Steve Shihadeh!) I have found some AI tools to be enormously useful. Use case #1: I am creating a guide for others to use -- a "how to" manual for reviewing health care vendor contracts. When I documented my parameters, I ended up with a result that shaved hours off the time needed to complete my finished product. Use case #2: I'm not good at creating pretty tables from Excel spread sheets, so I asked CoPilot to create one. In under a minute I received output It was nicer and more presentable than anything I could have created on my own. Use case #3: Needed a vendor comparison for a health system with a very complicated set of circumstances. Entered the parameters into the AI tool and received a thoroughly complete analysis from several perspectives. Back when I was a healthcare IT consultant, that kind of effort would have taken weeks to accomplish. Here it was done in minutes. Caution: all the AI output should be carefully reviewed. In some cases, it took a while to "ask" the right question to get the output we needed.
We have used AI primarily for research and document creation. I use it often when I am preparing to meet a new executive to get a full picture of their background. Finally, it is just refreshing to do a search and not get 1000 ads.