Hospital AI fails when it adds clicks. Four design rules that keep tools in daily use after the pilot ends.
Start with the clinician's minute
Time is the real constraint on a ward. A tool that saves ten minutes of documentation but adds three clicks to every task will be abandoned within a month. Shadow the workflow before choosing a use case.
Integrate where work already happens
Embed outputs in the EHR view clinicians already open, using HL7 FHIR APIs, instead of asking them to visit another screen. Single sign-on and context passing remove most friction.
Prove safety, then scale
Run a clinical safety case, test on subgroups, and pilot on a single unit with a named clinical lead. Publish the results internally, including failures, so trust grows from evidence.
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