Informatics Professor November 18, 2024
Although I consider artificial intelligence (AI) to be part of biomedical informatics, there is no question that AI has become very important on its own, in and beyond biomedicine and health. This is certainly reflected in the introductory course I teach to graduate, continuing education, and medical students. Not only one of ten units in the course devoted to AI, but AI is increasingly infused across other units, such as information retrieval and clinical research informatics.
To this end, I am changing the name of course, which will now be called, Introduction to Biomedical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence. The course content will not change substantially because AI is already part of the...