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Episode 11: Health Informatics and AI, with Professor Mark Braunstein, Author of Health Informatics on FHIR

The Medical AI Podcast

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Is There a Better Antibiotic?

The system consisted of a huge number of logical rules. Things like if A and B and any two of these four other findings are there, then the patient has this diagnosis. And it also used Bayesian statistics that relate findings to diagnosis. The second one is Mycen, M-Y-C-I-N, a name that derives from the last five letters in the name of a number of antibiotics,. Such as tetramison, or erythromycin. This was developed in the early 1970s by Dr. Ted Shortliff at Stanford as his PhD. In the average year here in the U.S., some people have 10 chronic diseases.

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