Alert fatigue is the best-documented failure mode in clinical decision support. Override rates for drug interaction alerts routinely exceed 90 percent, and clinicians dismiss alerts reflexively because the great majority are not clinically relevant.

Where This Gets Misread

Every AI tool that generates notifications is entering an environment that is already saturated. A new flag does not arrive into empty attention, it competes with existing alerts that clinicians have already learned to ignore. Specificity is not a nice-to-have in this context, it is the whole viability question.