Viewpoint by Julia Adler-Milstein, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Donald Redelmeier, Bob Wachter examines the potential problems of clinician reliance on the use of AI in health care and offers suggestions on how AI could be designed to promote clinician vigilance.
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On the occasion of the show's finale, this appreciation of Larry David and Curb Your Enthusiasm by Wesley Morris The New York Times is beautifully written and wildly insightful – it portrays LD as 'Emily Post with boxing gloves.' Worth the long read. Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David Latest News nytimes.com/2024/04/05/mag…

Was great being a part of the ONC 20 year history with all the prior national coordinators

Micky Tripathi cracked up the room when he commented that you could superimpose the Gartner hype cycle on this picture

A negative randomized trial of Paxlovid (vs placebo) for low risk (mean age 42 yrs), mild-to-moderate symptomatic Covid, outpatients
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I just appeared on Alec Baldwin’s podcast (yes, that guy!) describing the state of the diabetes epidemic and root causes of its inequities. Check it out! iheart.com/podcast/1119-h…

One of the best nights of the year UC San Francisco Dept of Medicine: music by our residents (and a few faculty) at my house. After a 4 year Covid hiatus, it's back.
Pics: Brenton Davis, Lillian Peng, Audrey A. Tran. Video: the amazing Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd (me on piano; barking by Newman). So fun.

Monday, I spoke at the Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Symposium on the future of AI tools in healthcare, a very important topic of conversation as technology evolves. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog about the challenges of AI and harnessing its potential. Here’s…

Already been 9 years working with our super teams at UC San Francisco UC San Francisco_BCHSI and across University of California Health… no fooling!

This is an absolutely exceptional group of physicians, teachers, and role models. So lucky to have them on our UC San Francisco UC San FranciscoDOM team!

In their new Forefront article, Robert Zimbroff and Bob Wachter from UC San Francisco discuss how, for Hospital at Home to achieve its full potential, advocates may find lessons in the decisions, missteps, and successes of hospitalists in their early days. bit.ly/43uGXTZ

So proud of my wife Katie Hafner & team. In 2021, she & co-founder Amy Scharf had idea for a podcast highlighting women who made big contributions to #STEM but didn’t get credit they deserved. Today, that podcast, Lost Women of Science, hit 1 million downloads! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/los…

This remains one of the most consequential experiments in AI: Bloomberg trained a GPT-3.5 class AI on their own financial data last year…

…only to find that GPT-4 8k, without specialized finance training, beat it on almost all finance tasks.

Hard to beat the frontier models.

Clear to me that digital scribes will be 1st genAI tool w/ widespread clinical use. Good piece Axios comparing start-ups axios.com/pro/health-tec…
3 big issues:
1) Will MDs actually read AI-drafted notes?
2) What's lost in MD thought process when you don't write note?
3) Tools…

💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥Amazing Beeson Lecture Yale School of Medicine lecture by Bob Wachter on “The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Is this Our Hemingway Moment?” - replete with amazing live Demo of #ChatGPT4 consultation - found another #genAI #spiritanimal

31st Annual Alice Hamilton Lecture now available on YouTube — Dust in the Lungs, an Ancient Disease Still with Us with Robert Cohen, MD
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Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd Bob Wachter

Thrilled by our UC San Francisco internal medicine match! Fab students from 27 schools (UCSF 10, Harvard 5, UCLA/Yale/UChic/UWash 4 each). 28% ID as UIM; 19% MD-PhDs. Thx Rebecca Berman, residency leaders & staff, and our residents, who create the culture. Pics: List (L) & Zoom toast (R)

Viewpoint by Julia Adler-Milstein, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Donald Redelmeier, Bob Wachter examines the potential problems of clinician reliance on the use of AI in health care and offers suggestions on how AI could be designed to promote clinician vigilance.
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A big loss for us but glad that Priscilla is staying in the University of CA system. She is a superb leader, researcher, and mentor and will do a great job UCLA Health.
We'll be launching a search soon for another exceptional chief of cardiology at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital & Trauma Center/UC San Francisco.