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AI in Medicine

Ambient AI Scribes in Emergency Medicine: What Physicians Should Check Before They Trust the Note

May 7, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD, FACEP

A practical physician-led checklist for emergency clinicians evaluating ambient AI scribes, documentation safety, workflow fit, and note-review risk before adoption.

Operations

AI Triage in the Emergency Department: Where It Helps, Where It Fails, and What to Validate First

May 5, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD, FACEP

A practical emergency physician framework for evaluating AI triage tools, validating performance, and spotting the failure modes that matter before frontline rollout.

AI in Emergency Medicine

AI POCUS in the ED: What It Sees and What It Misses

May 4, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD

AI-enhanced point-of-care ultrasound is real and useful in 2026 — but only if you know exactly where the technology breaks.

ED Management

AI Change Management in the Emergency Department: A Leader’s Practical Guide

May 4, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD

A practical AI change management guide for ED leaders. Use Kotter and ADKAR to drive physician adoption, reduce resistance, and roll out AI tools that actually work.

Leadership

AI Governance for Emergency Departments: A Practical Checklist Before You Scale Anything

May 3, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD, FACEP

A practical governance framework for emergency departments evaluating AI pilots, oversight, metrics, escalation rules, and safe scale decisions before widespread rollout.

AI in Emergency Medicine

AI Triage in the ED: A 2026 Field Report

May 2, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD

AI triage in the ED works for throughput in 2026 but fails on rare high-acuity cases. Three safeguards every department needs.

Clinical AI

Sepsis AI Alerts in Emergency Medicine: When Early Warning Helps and When It Distracts

May 1, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD, FACEP

A practical physician perspective on sepsis AI alerts in emergency medicine, including where early-warning support helps, where alerting fails, and how to validate signal quality.

Medicolegal

Emergency Physician AI Liability: How to Review, Document, and Escalate Safely

April 29, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD, FACEP

A practical emergency medicine guide to AI liability, including physician oversight, documentation expectations, escalation rules, and safer review habits when using AI tools.

AI in Emergency Medicine

Your Rural ED Wasn't in the AI Pilot

April 28, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD

Most clinical AI tools were built for urban hospitals with broadband, deep IT teams, and modern EHRs. Rural EDs operate in a different reality.

General

Your Pediatric AI Tool Was Trained on Adults

April 22, 2026 · Chester "Chet" Shermer, MD

Most AI diagnostic tools in the ED were built on adult data. Pediatric patients present differently, and those gaps create real clinical risk.

AI in Emergency Medicine

AI Integration in the ED: An Ops Playbook for EM Physicians

April 13, 2026 · Chester Shermer

Medically reviewed and authored by Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP | Updated April 2026 | 20 min read Emergency departments using AI ambient scribes recover

AI in Emergency Medicine

ED Observation Units: The Physician Guide to Reducing Admits and Readmissions

April 9, 2026 · Chester Shermer

Your emergency department just admitted a 45-year-old woman with atypical chest pain, a normal ECG, and a first troponin of less than the 99th percentile.