Informatics Professor

Periodically in this blog, lately once a year, I review all of my professional accomplishments, including honors, talks given, papers published, and more for the past year. Last year was a transi...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2024/02/kudos-for-informatics-professor-2023.html

How much of the hype for artificial intelligence (AI) that will truly impact health, healthcare, and research is an unknown. The potential benefits are unequivocal, from assistant patients pursue...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2024/02/translational-ai-necessity-and.html

When I was putting the finishing touches on the 4th edition of my textbook on information retrieval (IR, also known as search) in the domain on biomedicine and health in 2020 , I wondered whether...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2024/01/whither-search-new-perspective-on.html

Keeping with my tradition for this blog, I am ending this calendar year with my retrospective on the past year and some musings looking forward. The number of postings I make to this blog continu...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/12/annual-reflections-at-end-of-2023.html

A number of interesting papers on physician competencies in artificial intelligence (AI) have been published recently, and there is no question that all 21st century healthcare professions must h...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/09/physician-and-medical-student.html

In a previous post , I related the case of an excellent model that predicted hospital readmission yet when used in the context of real-world effort to reduce admissions was not able to lower the ...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/09/more-evidence-that-we-need-more.html

Our news ands science feeds are so filled these days with everything artificial intelligence (AI), from large language models to their impacts on society, that we may miss important studies on ot...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/07/lessons-about-clinical-ai-from.html

I know that some people lament death by Powerpoint , but I find a speaker's slides generally valuable as both a listener and a speaker. Yes, many people (including me!) could do better with slid...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/06/please-share-your-slides-when-you-start.html

As most of my world knows, I stepped down as Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) at the end of last year....

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/06/reports-of-my-retirement-are-greatly.html

In the last decade or so, a number of new names have emerged for the kinds of activities historically studied, disseminated, and taught by those who work in biomedical and health informatics. Eac...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/05/its-all-informatics-to-me-data.html

I have written over the years that understanding data science (DS), machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and related topics is essential for anyone who works in a profession where...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/04/learning-data-science-and-machine.html

This month marks three years since the start of lockdowns in the United States for the COVID-19 pandemic. As I imagine is true for most people, few upheavals in my life have had such a profound a...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/03/covid-19-three-years-on.html

Like many who work with computers and other information technology, I enjoy programming. I got my start in programming when I was first exposed to computers in high school in the 1970s, when almo...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/02/who-should-program.html

Since my own explorations with ChatGPT  in informatics knowledge last month, others using the system have racked up some impressive results. Most pertinent to biomedical informatics is ChatGPT's...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2023/01/chatgpt-confabulates-and-is.html

I am keeping my tradition in this blog this year of ending the calendar year with a retrospective on the past year and some musings looking forward. Clearly our lives were still dominated in 20...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/12/annual-reflections-at-end-of-2022.html

The year 2022 was a highly productive one for the Informatics Professor, and I am pleased to provide my periodic update of my recent accomplishments. This year had another big event in my decisio...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/12/kudos-for-informatics-professor-2022.html

It has been interesting to read all of the uses that colleagues of mine and others have employed to put ChatGPT to the test, in addition to my tests of learning objectives, a biography , and mult...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/12/chatgpt-postscript.html

After sending some comments about my blog post on my initial excursions with ChatGPT earlier this week, I received a great deal of interesting follow-up. One colleague lamented that we may no lo...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/12/chatgpt-round-two.html

Like many people, I found myself caught up this past week testing out ChatGPT , the new automated chat agent released by OpenAI . It seems like many people across the Internet are using it to tes...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/12/initial-excursions-with-chatgpt.html

I recently took part in a small workshop exploring the benefits and challenges for artificial intelligence in medicine. Many of the participants were innovative medical educators, and most of the...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-most-profound-event-in-my.html

This year, 2022, marks a quarter-century of my leadership of academic informatics at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) . I have served for 19 years as the one and only Chair of the Depart...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-new-pathway-for-my-career-in.html

I am pleased to announce publication of the 8th Edition of Health Informatics: Practical Guide. The goal of this textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the field of health informa...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/08/arrival-of-8th-edition-of-health.html

Although scientists are supposed to be disinterested observers of the results of their work, the reality is that none of us really want to see a negative result from our research. This is especia...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/07/reflections-on-publishing-negative-study.html

I am pleased to announce an update of my Web site that provides an introductory overview of biomedical and health informatics. Entitled, What is Biomedical & Health Informatics?, I created this s...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/06/2022-update-of-informaticshealth.html

One of the most enjoyable and impactful activities of my career has been the 10x10 ("ten by ten") course , which is an online introductory course in biomedical and health informatics that I teach...

http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/2022/04/3000-by-2022-new-milestone-for-10x10.html