Informatics and Analytics


Physician and Medical Student Competence in AI

By William Hersh MD – A number of interesting papers on physician competencies in artificial intelligence have been published recently, and there is no question that all 21st century healthcare professions must have a thorough understanding of the benefits and limitations of AI that they are likely to use in their clinical work.



Lessons About Clinical AI

By William Hersh MD – Our news and 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 other informatics topics, some of which may have lessons for AI.


It’s All Informatics to Me

By William Hersh MD – 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. Each of these areas has emerged as a “hot topic” in biomedicine and healthcare, with resulting…


ChatGPT Confabulates and is Unprofessional

By William Hersh MD – 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 passing grades on medical student licensing exams.