March 6, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Public-Private Partnerships in Health AI

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Michael Pencina of Duke University will present “Public-Private Partnerships in the Trustworthy Health AI Ecosystem.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, March 8, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Pencina is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics and the vice dean for data science in the Duke University School of Medicine. He is the director of the university’s Duke AI Health initiative and the chief data scientist for Duke Health.

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August 2, 2023: Want to Play a Game? AI and Machine Learning in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Headshot of Dr. Eric Perakslis
Dr. Eric Perakslis

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Eric Perakslis of Duke University will present “AI & ML: Want to Play a Game?”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, August 4, 2023, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Perakslis is a professor in population health sciences and the chief research technology strategist in the Duke University School of Medicine.

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May 4, 2022: Ethics Core Members Pen Guest Editorial for AJOB Focus on Machine Learning in Healthcare

Cover image for The American Journal of BioethicsIn a guest editorial in the American Journal of Bioethics, members of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory’s Ethics and Regulatory Core introduced the issue’s target article and peer commentaries on artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare. Prof. Kayte Spector-Bagdady and Drs. Vasiliki Rahimzadeh and Kaitlyn Jaffe, who are Core members, were joined by coauthor Dr. Jonathan Moreno in writing the editorial.

The target article of the themed collection proposes a research ethics framework for the clinical translation of healthcare machine learning. In several peer commentaries accompanying the article, experts offer their perspectives on the proposed framework, including critiques of “the insufficiency of current ethics and regulatory solutions to adequately protect communities at higher risk for [machine learning] bias.”

Read the full editorial, “Promoting Ethical Deployment of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare.” Learn more about our Ethics and Regulatory Core.

June 7, 2019: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Data Science as a Service—Using AI to Risk Stratify a Medicare Population and Build a Culture (Erich Huang, MD, PhD)

Speaker

Erich S. Huang, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Duke Forge
Departments of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Surgery
Duke University School of Medicine

Topic

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Data Science as a Service—Using AI to Risk Stratify a Medicare Population and Build a Culture

Keywords

Data science; Data liquidity; Data standards; Machine learning; Duke Forge; Application programming interface; Artificial intelligence

Key Points

  • Duke Forge focuses on bringing the best methodological approaches to actionable data problems in health. It is motivated by a framework of value-based healthcare to address societal inequities in health.
  • Essential components to building a data science culture include clinical subject matter expertise, quantitative and methodological expertise, and software architecture and engineering expertise, along with interoperable tools and applications.
  • Like freight shipping containers, health-relevant data needs standardized containers that make any type of data easy to pack, grab, combine, and move around. The aim should be to build a “data liquidity ecosystem” equivalent to freighters, cranes, trains, and trucks that facilitate the logistics of health data transport.

Discussion Themes

If we’re trying to build an ecosystem, then the electronic health record (EHR) platform needs to be evaluated by whether it is truly participatory in this ecosystem. If not, then its deficiencies must be remediated.

The faster we can move to the cloud and use building blocks that “snap” together, the faster we can get answers. We want to be building applications instead of infrastructure.

Algorithms don’t have ethics; some have hidden biases. Algorithms need to be scrutinized and tested for such biases. They also must be secured so they cannot be manipulated.

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Tags

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