1) AI Foundations for Healthcare Teams
Focus: What AI really does in healthcare and where it helps today.
AI essentials: what AI is (tools that learn patterns) and what it isn’t (a final decision-maker).
Short history: key milestones from early rule-based systems to today’s generative AI.
Why it matters now: better documentation, triage support, imaging assistance, scheduling, patient communication.
AI domains in healthcare
Benefits vs. limits: speed and consistency vs. hallucinations, bias, and stale information.
2) Healthcare Data & the ML Process
Focus: Understand your data and how AI tools learn.
What data looks like: EHR fields, vitals and labs, imaging files, clinical notes, wearables, patient messages.
Data quality basics: complete and correct entries, consistent units, up-to-date meds/allergies, fewer free-text surprises.
ML lifecycle at a glance: collect → train → validate → test → monitor
What this means for practice: capture cleaner inputs, read outputs critically
Patient data privacy: PHI stays in approved systems; access control, minimal necessary use, simple logging
3) Prompting Essentials for Clinical Communication & Insights
Focus: Use Gen-AI safely for notes, patient explanations, and evidence summaries.
What prompting is: state your role, the clinical context, and the exact task and format you want.
Clinical documentation: request structured outputs for HPI, assessment, plan, discharge notes, and referrals.
Patient communication: ask for plain language, appropriate reading level, and respectful, culturally aware wording.
Evidence summary: frame the question (PICO), ask for study type and key findings, include limitations and certainty.
Quick literature matrix: population, intervention, outcomes, key finding, caveats
Data analysis prompts: dataset/timeframe/units/normals; ask for QC (missing values, outliers, unit mix-ups) first
Descriptives & trends: counts/means/medians/ranges; time trends; simple cohorts (pre/post)
Charts to request: lines (vitals over time), bars (category counts), scatter (simple relationships)
Nursing workflows: SBAR, shift handoffs, care plan updates, patient instructions
PHI rules in plain language (HIPAA/GDPR, residency, approved vendors)
Why LLMs hallucinate (plain English): predictive text, gaps in training data, outdated knowledge cutoffs, and no live EHR access
4) Computer Vision in Clinical Practice
Focus: How AI assists radiology, pathology, dermatology, dentistry.
Core tasks: detection (find an abnormality), classification (type), segmentation (outline), localization and measurement.
Feature extraction: turns pixels into simple features (edges, shapes, sizes, densities, textures) that support the suggestion.
Workflow uses: triage and prioritization, second-reader checks, structured measurements for reports.
Limitations: false positives/negatives, image quality and artifacts, device or site differences, lack of clinical context.
Role notes: radiology (worklist triage), dentistry (caries/periapical), derm (lesion triage)
5) Automation in Care Operations
Focus: Reduce manual admin work by automating repeatable tasks in existing systems.
Where to start: repetitive, rules-based, high-volume, low-risk workflows
Map the path: trigger → inputs → steps → output → owner
Low-lift automations: Set up appointment reminders and follow-ups that send the right message at the right time and log the outcome automatically.
Automate discharge check-ins and medication reminders to improve adherence and reduce missed follow-ups.
Reliability and safety: approvals where needed, clear error paths, retries, audit logs, PHI kept inside approved tools
6) AI Agents in Healthcare Workflows
Focus: Deploy AI helpers that plan multi-step tasks, monitor signals, and propose actions with human approval.
What agents add beyond automation: planning, tool use, memory, self-checks
AI agents vs LLMs: what is the difference and when to use each
Common use cases: inbox triage, lab/radiology follow-ups, care-gap monitoring, benefits checks
Guardrails: Keep humans in the loop by sending suggestions for approval before anything is scheduled, ordered, or communicated to patients.
Evidence discipline: link suggestions to EHR entries, labs, or imaging and note confidence; record approvals