Choosing Wisely in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Preprint)
UNSTRUCTURED Choosing Wisely campaigns have spread to more than 20 countries worldwide. Choosing Wisely is a clinician-led effort to produce clinician recommendations and patient resources around overused tests, procedures and medications. The digitization of medical records and workflows and growth in computing power has enabled artificial intelligence (AI) to be applied to augment health care decision-making. Overuse is an important problem for AI-enabled technologies to address. This commentary offers a roadmap of opportunities for AI-augmented efforts to reduce overuse which are presented according to a patient’s journey of care, beginning from when patients experience symptoms through clinical decision making and subsequent evaluation efforts. This roadmap can be used to guide the cross-discipline development and implementation of AI-enabled tools to reduce overuse and drive value.