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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Core Principles of Agentic AI in Healthcare

  • Distinguishing agentic systems from standard tool-using LLM applications.
  • Defining autonomy limits, policies, and the role of human oversight.
  • Navigating the healthcare data environment and its constraints, including EHR, FHIR, and PHI.

Creating Agent Workflows

  • Integrating planning, memory, tool usage, and reflective loops.
  • Applying prompt engineering, function/tool definition, and action selection strategies.
  • Managing state and implementing orchestration patterns.

Retrieval-Augmented Agents

  • Processing and segmenting medical documents for ingestion.
  • Utilizing embeddings, vector stores, and assessing relevance.
  • Ensuring response accuracy and developing citation methodologies.

Healthcare Integration and Interoperability

  • Fundamentals of FHIR and SMART for connecting agents.
  • Handling both structured and unstructured clinical data.
  • Implementing eventing, APIs, and maintaining audit trails.

Safety, Risk Management, and Governance

  • Designing guardrails, conducting red-teaming, and establishing fail-safes.
  • Managing PHI, ensuring de-identification, and enforcing access controls.
  • Implementing human-in-the-loop reviews and defining escalation protocols.

Assessment and Monitoring

  • Conducting offline evaluations, creating golden sets, and defining KPIs.
  • Detecting hallucinations and verifying factual accuracy.
  • Ensuring observability, logging, and managing cost and latency.

Deployment Strategies and Practical Lab

  • Comparing API-based versus on-premises model deployment options.
  • Developing a retrieval-augmented agent using LangChain, FastAPI, and ChromaDB.
  • Simulating incident response scenarios and executing rollback procedures.

Recap and Future Directions

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of Python programming.
  • Practical experience with data analysis or machine learning workflows.
  • Knowledge of key healthcare data standards and concepts, such as EHR and FHIR.

Target Audience

  • Healthcare data scientists and machine learning engineers.
  • Clinical informatics specialists and digital health product teams.
  • IT leadership and innovation managers within the healthcare sector.

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