Working Group Webinar Library

Dr. Jackie Gerhart, VP of Clinical Informatics and Epic Clinician shares details on the current state and research potential nation's largest EHR data collaboration platform. Watch the Recording Presenter Jacqueline Gerhart, MD is a family medicine physician and clinical informaticist at Epic in Verona, WI. She earned her medical degree from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN, and is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she still sees patients, including on the front-lines during this COVID-19 pandemic. Her passion is to reduce barriers to medical care through the best use of technology. She enjoys advocating to align policy with practice to improve clinician well-being and empower patients.

The explosion of biomedical big data and information in the past decade created new opportunities for discoveries to improve the treatment and prevention of human diseases. But the large body of knowledge presents a grand new challenge. Individual scientists around the world are increasingly finding themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume of research literature and are struggling to keep up to date and to make sense of this wealth of textual information.

Dr. Heidi Hanson discusses a National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Department of Energy collaboration to develop computational modeling and artificial intelligence approaches to advance cancer research. This work is related to the Blue-Ribbon Panel recommendation to build a national cancer data ecosystem.

This webinar summarizes current trends and use cases that apply state-of-the-art natural language processing in healthcare systems, pharmaceuticals, and health IT companies. David Talby covers unlocking use cases that become possible with current large language models; enabling medical domain experts to train & tune models in a co-code environment; and testing NLP models across aspects of Responsible AI in preparation for regulatory oversight. Talby also shares free and open-source tools that you can use today in these three areas.

Multiple studies have already demonstrated the effectiveness of electronic health record data in building Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus screening and prediction models. Through collaboration with family medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, patients, and computer science experts, the team at the University of Maribor aims to bring the T2DM prediction models closer to healthcare experts.