Healthcare IT News August 5, 2024
The Boston health system’s director of AI operations discusses some challenges and best practices for integrating large language models into research and operational tasks while explicitly excluding direct clinical care.
The famous Dana-Farber Cancer Institute built a secure and private exploratory environment to evaluate, test and deploy large language models for non-clinical applications such as clinical and basic research and operations.
The provider organization overcame governance, ethics, regulatory and technical challenges, and deployed a secure API to enable its developers to embed AI into their software applications. And the organization trained its workforce on proper and secure LLM use, reskilled and upskilled where necessary, and worked on increasing adoption.
Renato Umeton is director of AI operations and data science services...