New Read: Medical Artificial Intelligence and Human Values

“In this article in the series on artificial intelligence in medicine, the authors explore how human values influence the outputs of large language models and other artificial intelligence models.” Yu, K. H., Healey, E., Leong, T. Y., Kohane, I. S., & Manrai, A. K. (2024). Medical Artificial Intelligence and Human Values. The New England journal of medicine, 390(20), 1895–1904. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra2214183 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2214183 Notes coming soon…

September 11, 2024 · 1 min · 64 words · DC

Review of Open Health Information Technology

Medplum “Medplum is a healthcare platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality compliant applications.” https://www.medplum.com/ https://github.com/medplum/medplum 1 2 3 4 git clone https://github.com/medplum/medplum-hello-world.git cd medplum-hello-world npm i npm run dev openEHR “Non-profit organisation publishing specifications, models and software for an open health computing platform.” https://openehr.org/developers https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/ITS-REST/development/system.html https://github.com/openEHR https://openehr.org/products_tools/platform/ openFHIR “openFHIR is an engine that implements FHIR Connect specification and facilitates bidirectional mappings between openEHR and FHIR.” https://open-fhir.com/ https://github.com/better-care/fhir-connect-mapping-spec

September 8, 2024 · 1 min · 68 words · DC

Mentors and Mentees

Oof. This past week was a blur, with extreme highs and lows. There are people who will put you in your place by showing you how much they know. This place is a prison. There are others who will put you in your place by revealing how much there is to learn, welcoming you to embark on your own path. This place is an abyss. I’ll be honest and admit that I don’t know which place is better because both can be overwhelming, frustrating, paralyzing, and terrifying....

December 17, 2023 · 2 min · 236 words · DC

Student Contributions to NIST

I want to leave behind a note on NIST: If you are a student in informatics, or even early in your career, and you want to try making open source contributions for some experience related to: user experience: by improving documentation and demonstration design and analysis: by contributing visualizations development: by editing and testing code cybersecurity: by contributing to policy or information modeling There is opportunity to do so. If you are interested, I can give you more information, or you can explore on your own at: https://github....

December 16, 2023 · 1 min · 167 words · DC

Blame

Its easy to point fingers when you aren’t putting your hands on the problem.

December 8, 2023 · 1 min · 14 words · DC