Ciara Ferrier

I am pleased to share that I have completed the Skills for Health GenAI in Healthcare: Starting Safely course.

This is a very short course, taking just 30 minutes to complete. There are pros and cons to a short course. Some will say, "How can 30 minutes POSSIBLY cover the use of AI in healthcare (or anywhere)?!" Others will be delighted to put a big tick next to some relevant CPD in a very short space of time.

What I really liked about this course is the analogy used for thinking about how and when you should use AI services such as ChatGPT, Claude and CoPilot. Skills for Health have used a colour-coded bucket system; green, amber and red buckets into which to sort tasks you may consider asking AI to help you with.

It's a very helpful way of sifting your administrative tasks into those where AI is appropriate to use and those where it is not. So, I would recommend this course to anyone working in healthcare or with healthcare professionals as a way of training your mindset.

I won't spoil which tasks go into which bucket, but other sectors can adapt and modify a similar traffic-light system:

RED tasks:

those impacting on JUDGEMENT or DECISION MAKING. Unsuitable for AI.

AMBER tasks:

those involving PERSONAL INFORMATION, invoking GDPR legislation or similar. Use AI with caution.

GREEN tasks:

BASIC ADMIN tasks, NOT involving personal information or consideration of any specific legislation. Suitable for AI.

There will still be debate - heated debate in many cases - about what colour to assign to a tasks. For example, many will argue generating an AI poster for a school fair is a GREEN task, however others (including me!) will argue that creativity falls into the RED task category along with judgement or decision making. RED tasks are essentially those that ONLY a human could or should do.

The traffic lights are a starting point in a consultation process.