Article Summary
- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine hosted Project INSPIRE, the second in a series of technology-oriented workshops.
- Leaders from innovative companies like Amazon Web Services talked about how technology will change and improve health care and medical research.
- Presenters noted that advanced technology like AI needs to be implemented with care and caution to realize its full potential.
Clinicians, researchers and educators at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine took another step on the journey to digital and innovation transformation at an April 13 workshop for Project INSPIRE (Innovating Next-generation Solutions for Precision care, Innovation, Research and Education).
They were joined by leaders from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other innovative digital companies at the day-long session at the Lois Pope Life Center.
“Digital tools are reshaping the landscape of medicine,” said Henri R. Ford, M.D., M.H.A., dean and chief academic officer of the Miller School. “Through our visionary initiative, we are poised to harness cutting-edge technologies to achieve better outcomes and address health disparities.”
First the Why, Then the How
While the first Project INSPIRE workshop in February focused on the “why,” the second was all about the “how,” according to project leader Azizi Seixas, Ph.D., interim chair, Department of Informatics and Health Data Science and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Miller School.
About 75 Miller School participants took part in the Saturday retreat, which included morning presentations exploring how big data, generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning…
