Monday, November 18, 2024

10x10 (“Ten by Ten”) Course: New Name and Milestones

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Although I consider artificial intelligence (AI) to be part of biomedical informatics , there is no question that AI has become very importa...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Generative AI in My Teaching - The Final Shoe Drops

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I recently published a paper in the journal npj Digital Medicine looking at how well generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems perfor...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Medical Practice is Rarely a Zero/One-Shot Activity

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A new generative artificial intelligence (AI) study presents some interesting findings.(1) Physicians randomized to conventional information...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Graduation Participation and Faculty Address for 2024 OHSU Biomedical Informatics Graduates

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The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Commencement and School Hooding Ceremonies, also known as Graduation, is always a special ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Kudos for the Informatics Professor - 2023 Update

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Periodically in this blog, lately once a year, I review all of my professional accomplishments, including honors, talks given, papers publis...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Translational AI: A Necessity and Opportunity for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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How much of the hype for artificial intelligence (AI) that will truly impact health, healthcare, and research is an unknown. The potential b...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Whither Search? A New Perspective on the Impact of Generative AI on Information Retrieval (IR)

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When I was putting the finishing touches on the 4th edition of my textbook on information retrieval (IR, also known as search) in the domain...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Annual Reflections at the End of 2023

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Keeping with my tradition for this blog, I am ending this calendar year with my retrospective on the past year and some musings looking forw...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Physician and Medical Student Competence in AI Must Include Broader Competence in Clinical Informatics

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A number of interesting papers on physician competencies in artificial intelligence (AI) have been published recently, and there is no quest...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

More Evidence That We Need More Evidence for AI Interventions

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In a previous post , I related the case of an excellent model that predicted hospital readmission yet when used in the context of real-world...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Lessons About Clinical AI From a Randomized Controlled Trial on Hospital Readmissions

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Our news ands science feeds are so filled these days with everything artificial intelligence (AI), from large language models to their impac...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Please Share Your Slides When You Start Your Talk

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I know that some people lament  death by Powerpoint , but I find a speaker's slides generally valuable as both a listener and a speaker....
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Reports of My Retirement Are Greatly Exaggerated

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As most of my world knows, I stepped down as Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) at Oregon H...
Monday, May 22, 2023

It's All Informatics to Me: Data Analytics, Data Science, Digital Health, AI, and Whatever is Next

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In the last decade or so, a number of new names have emerged for the kinds of activities historically studied, disseminated, and taught by t...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Learning Data Science and Machine Learning with Orange

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I have written over the years that understanding data science (DS), machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and related topics ...
Friday, March 17, 2023

COVID-19, Three Years On

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This month marks three years since the start of lockdowns in the United States for the COVID-19 pandemic. As I imagine is true for most peop...
Monday, February 6, 2023

Who Should Program?

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Like many who work with computers and other information technology, I enjoy programming. I got my start in programming when I was first expo...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

ChatGPT Confabulates and is Unprofessional

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Since my own explorations with ChatGPT  in informatics knowledge last month, others using the system have racked up some impressive results....
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Annual Reflections at the End of 2022

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I am keeping my tradition in this blog this year of ending the calendar year with a retrospective on the past year and some musings looking ...