Study offers insights on using AI in health care

Inaccurate artificial intelligence can lead to bad user decisions, a study of 450 nursing students and 12 licensed nurses found. Published in npj Digital Medicine, the study found AI algorithms and the people using them should be evaluated simultaneously to get an accurate view of AI’s effects on human decision-making. The study evaluated participants using AI-assisted technologies in a remote patient-monitoring scenario to determine how likely patients would need urgent care in a range of cases. Results showed that more accurate AI predictions about whether a patient was trending toward a medical emergency improved participant performance between 50% and 60%. However, when the algorithm made an inaccurate prediction, human performance plummeted, even when accompanied by explanatory data that did not support the outcome. (The Ohio State University news release, 8/18/25)