I am very much looking forward to the 2024 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Learning Health Systems (SAIL) this coming week. Great lineup of speakers & panelists sail.health #sail24 #bioinformatics #artificialintelligence #healthcare

That's a wrap on this semester's DBMI at Harvard Med BMI702 Intro to #Biomedical #AI class! 🎓

Explore the syllabus and course materials, open to all: zitniklab.hms.harvard.edu/BMI702/ Harvard Medical School Harvard Data Science Initiative Kempner Institute at Harvard University

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Truth hurts. RAG random implementations vs hugely capacious in-context-learning increasingly interesting choice.

Scaled up could this be the deployment model for surgery?

Reviewing my assignments today for Fortune Brainstorm Health and I’m interviewing folks like Jeff Tangney (Doximity), Amazon’s Neil Lindsay, Peter Lee, Isaac Kohane, Paul Markovich, Shiv Rao and more. The lineup this year is insane. fortune.com/conferences/fo… can’t wait!!…

Could an AI second opinion service improve medical diagnosis and reduce medical errors **today**? We believe the answer is yes with proper oversight.

Adam Rodman and I reflect on the urgency in our new STAT essay:

statnews.com/2024/05/03/ai-…

Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known. Its benefits in prevention outstrip any known drugs: 50% reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, 50% reduction in the risk of many cancers, positive effects on mental health, pulmonary health, GI…

I'm grateful to be named alongside so many great people on TIME's #TIME100health list of the 100 most influential people in health. Truly a recognition of the efforts of the amazing team Microsoft plus fantastic collaborators around the world. time.com/collection/tim…

Congrats to Teng for his successful PhD defense! It was a pleasure to advise him along with PeterK. Teng's superb thesis consisted of CNV estimation from scRNA-seq (Gao et al, Nat Biotech) and discovery of mosaic CNVs in normal tissues (Gao et al, Nat Genetics).

Isaac Kohane Having shared a few patients with Nicholas A. Christakis, he is also a mighty fine doctor.

Congrats.

Nicholas, you are an exemplary citizen of the world, one of our most precious most creative scientists. You are also that rarest form of public intellectual, a humble one. And that hair! Congratulations.

Michael Baym Steven Strogatz [email protected] Such a good story about how a fine career unfolds. :-)

Congratulations Steven Strogatz [email protected] and Nicholas A. Christakis!!

What a day for science twitter!

#FortuneHealth is excited to welcome Isaac Kohane (Isaac Kohane), chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (@HarvardDBMI) at Harvard Medical School (@harvardMED), to our conference May 20–21.

See our full list of speakers here 👉 bit.ly/3Wsi6Ph

Excited to share our #echofirst foundation model is now published in Nature Medicine!

Trained on 1M Cedars-Sinai A4C echo-report pairs, EchoCLIP has strong performance on wide range of cardiac diagnostic benchmarks, including LVEF in Stanford Medicine videos (MAE 7.1%).

It's high time for a Human Envirome Project. One example why a comprehensive approach is needed: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… CC Chirag Patel

Policy $$$$$: Seems that payers (e.g. Medicare.gov MedicaidGov CMSGov UnitedHealth Group Aetna Humana Centene) and providers would be most interested in standardizing benchmarks for LLM medical coding. Literally billions of dollars in play depending on bias/performance.

New NEJM paper finds that LLMs are poor at autonomous coding --> prone to hallucinations.

It's actually a good tailwind for building in this space since you need to fine tune models with training data likely from a health system or rev cycle partner.

Its been a month since we released UNI and CONCH, a vision only and a vision-language foundation model for computational pathology w/ Nature Medicine articles. The models have been downloaded over 233k times on @HuggingFace we are analyzing the early impact, see where people are…