As Shared Decision-Making Ails, AI May Save This Human Interaction

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Shared decision-making between doctors and patients may be “the pinnacle of patient-centered care,” but three new medical journal articles suggest it’s encountering more problems than peaks. Yet counterintuitively, it may be artificial intelligence that rescues this intimately human interaction. “Shared decision-making is at a crossroads,” declares a Perspective in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, “Saving Shared Decision-Making.” Unfortunately, its more-research-and-education recommendations for “advancing the science of SDM implementation,” seem more c