Who keeps track
How AI caregiving apps take on paperwork, while keeping records current and trusting the privacy promise still falls to families.
Caregiving apps are getting AI, WIRED reports. They answer questions, summarize medical records and suggest questions to ask at a doctor's appointment. The one that goes furthest is Ari from Citizen Health, still in beta and only for people with a rare disease: you send a message and Ari reads through records, patient portals and the calendar on its own.
That is welcome. In the US, an estimated 63 million people cared for a family member or friend last year, according to AARP for up to 27 hours a week.
But an app is only as good as what goes into it. Doctors and home health nurses do not log in to update anything, so that falls back on the caregiver. And what you enter at home usually falls outside the US health privacy law. What remains is the promise in the company's terms of service.
In this way, AI takes over part of the admin. The caring itself stays with the family. Who carries the rest?
Sources
- wired.com/story/apps-for-caregivers-get-a-dose-of-ai-but-that-might-not-be-enoughwired.com
- briiidge.dev/machine/caregiver-apps-add-ai-features-but-the-work-of-caregiving-stays-withbriiidge.dev
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