Evolve AI healthcare
We invite all physicians and trainees to join us in exploring how AI can be used responsibly to enhance patient care and shape the future of medicine.
Participation in this series will also contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements, supporting your ongoing learning in digital health.
Using AI tools to select and interpret laboratory investigations
Professor Ian Scott outlines indications for investigations, where testing and investigations are being overused and current utilisation patterns in terms of appropriateness. He shares the potential value of using AI to select and interpret laboratory investigations, using AI tools applied to laboratory tests to inform prognostic and treatment decisions and using AI to assist patients in interpreting test results supporting patient literacy..
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Using AI to assist clinical decision-making
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly used in healthcare to support clinical decisions. Used well they can improve decisional efficiency, consistency and communication with patients. However, their use introduces new considerations for real-world applicability and clinician interaction with automated recommendations. Professor Ian Scott highlights the importance of ensuring that these AI tools enhance - rather than undermine - clinical reasoning for safe implementation.
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How to use AI to predict and prevent care-related harm
Professor Ian Scott discusses how using AI tools can assist clinical decision-making including the scale and burden of care-related harm, needs and limitations of current risk prediction rules, examples of implemented AI tools such as with sepsis prevention, prerequisites for reliable risk reduction and factors that determine AI tools effectiveness, efficiency, and utility.
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How to use AI scribes and assistants?
Prof Ian Scott outlines the practical use, benefits, and limitations of AI scribes and virtual assistants in healthcare, with a focus on documentation burden, clinician workflow, and patient experience. He emphasises the need for critical oversight, regulatory awareness, privacy safeguards, and clinician accountability to ensure safe, ethical, and effective adoption in clinical practice.
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What is AI in healthcare?
Prof Ian Scott introduces key concepts, processes, limitations, and ethical issues associated with AI use. He explains critical appraisal skills for AI tools and the importance of having awareness of regulatory implications in practice.
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