Medical Attention podcast

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In this episode, we discuss algorithmic bias and fairness in healthcare. We explain what this is, the different definitions of “fairness”, explore the ways in which bias can enter the machine learning pipeline and some ways to combat it. 01:00 Technical update - NeurIPS 06:50 Technical update - ChatGPT-o3 14:00 - Algorithmic bias Episodes | Bluesky | info@medicalattention.ai…

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Ep.7 Informatics Year in Review 49:16

17 weeks ago49:16

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We’ve returned after an accidental hiatus, just in time for the end of the year. In this episode, we’re joined by the team behind the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Year in Review - Professor James Cimino, Pushkala Jayaraman and Dr Humayera Islam to talk about the main themes in healthcare AI for 2024. 01:00 Technical update (ChatGPT-o1, agentic AI) 10:25 AMIA Year in Review Episodes | Bluesky | info@medicalattention.ai…

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Ep.6 Human-computer interaction in healthcare 50:07

30 weeks ago50:07

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We’re back! This is the start of our regular discussions about healthcare AI topics and recent literature. On today’s episode - the 10 commandments of decision support, the checkered history of EMRs, clinicians as “moral crumple zone” for AI models and much more. 01:18 Technical update (Llama 3.1, Phi releases) 06:25 Main discussion 41:20 Article round-up Episodes | Twitter | info@medicalattention.ai…

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Ep.5: Pushed to the LLM-it 34:10

38 weeks ago34:10

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In this episode, we discuss more of the technical aspects of LLM implementation in healthcare, including the following topics: Embeddings Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) Fine tuning Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) Small models Quantisation Encoder and decoder models Multimodal transformers Oh my! Episodes | Twitter | info@medicalattention.ai…

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Ep.4: LLM LLMitations 26:40

38 weeks ago26:40

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In this episode, we discuss some concerns about LLM implementation in the healthcare setting, including the following topics: More detail about hallucinations, issues with accuracy Difficulties of model evaluation Concerns regarding bias and equity Governance and monitoring of LLMs in a healthcare settings Episodes | Twitter | info@medicalattention.ai…

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Ep.3: Introduction to LLMs 38:08

38 weeks ago38:08

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Finally! We’re talking about large language models (LLMs) including ChatGPT. We discuss the following topics: Brief explanation of transformer models and how they work including the attention mechanism and context window Discuss a brief development of LLMs to this point How LLMs are trained Some limitations - privacy, accuracy, provenance Episodes | Twitter | info@medicalattention.ai…

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Ep.2: Neural networks in healthcare 31:31

38 weeks ago31:31

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In this episodes we give an overview of neural networks and how they’re used in healthcare. We'll be covering the following topics: Definition of neural networks and a high level explanation of their structure Overview of the development of neural networks and use in healthcare How neural networks are currently used in medicine Limitations and considerations for their use Episodes | Twitter | info@medicalattention.ai…

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Ep.1: Introduction to AI in healthcare 25:35

38 weeks ago25:35