After three years of negotiations without an agreement, the practitioners of two Allina Health hospitals are demanding a right to review the place of algorithms in care and billing.
Approximately 150 unionized doctors from Mercy Hospitals in Coon Rapids and Unity in Fridley stopped work four days from September 14. Obstetricians, psychiatrists, reactors: the movement is unprecedented in this part of Minnesota, and it intervenes after three years of contract negotiations with Allina Health.
Traditional claims — pay, sick leave, protective equipment — are included. But the point that has attracted attention is elsewhere: practitioners ask for a formal right to look at how artificial intelligence moves into their work. They are concerned about its growing role in the electronic medical record, in the diagnostic orientation and even in the suggestions of billing to insurers. The removal of non-competition clauses is also part of the applications.
Allina Health believes that both parties have advanced and reject an agreement that would not take into account the rising health costs. Represented by Doctors Council SEIU, the strikers are part of a wave of medical unionization largely born of the pandemic — to which is now added the question of who decides, the practitioner or the software.
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