Events

October 2021 Webinar

“First Do No Harm: Understanding the ML/AI Behind Clinical Decision Alerts”

This is the second webinar in the series “Demystifying the Data, Processes, and Tools that Are Changing Clinical Care.”

View slide presentation [pdf].

Presenters:
Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor, Learning Health Sciences, Internal Medicine, Urology, and Information
Maggie Makar, PhD, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science and Engineering

Moderator:
Vicki Ellingrod, PharmD, FCCP, John Gideon Searle Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Pharmacy

Singh and Makar discuss the limitations of using electronic health records (EHR) and the distinctions between artificial intelligence (AI), data science, machine learning (ML), and informatics. They explain how AI, ML, data science, and informatics work together to create clinical decision alerts, and their implications on practice.