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Exploring the crisis of rural maternity care closures in the US, the challenges faced by rural patients, and the need for a new payment model. Discussing workforce strategies to address healthcare accessibility gaps, focusing on initiatives like the Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program. Delving into the impact of labor and delivery department closures on prenatal care access, challenges faced by rural individuals in traveling for appointments, and a study on SARS-CoV-2 clearance rates in immunocompromised individuals.

The podcast discusses automation bias and shortcuts in clinical AI models, emphasizing the need for human collaboration to improve healthcare. Topics include accuracy of AI in diagnosing conditions using chest x-rays, addressing biases in AI models, exploring human-AI collaboration, and integrating AI tools in clinical practice.

Marzyeh Ghassemi, MIT professor, discusses ethical AI in clinical practice. Topics include biases in AI, disparities in model performance, data quality issues, labeling data correctly, ethical responsibilities of developers, and the dangers of automation bias in healthcare technology.

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Experts discuss racial bias in clinical algorithms, including efforts to remove race calculations. The podcast also covers the reliability of electronic health records and the inclusion of social determinants of health. Updates on the Omicron variant, vaccine effectiveness, and the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions are included.

Atul Butte, Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at UCSF, discusses using AI to democratize healthcare, utilizing large datasets for comparative effectiveness research, ensuring patient data privacy, improving healthcare outcomes through data analysis, and addressing the risks of AI language model extrapolation.

Arvind Narayanan, professor of computer science at Princeton, joins JAMA's Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo to explore AI fairness, transparency, and accountability in healthcare. They discuss the racial bias in hospital algorithms, limitations of AI technologies, and the need for constant monitoring. The podcast also highlights the challenges of data availability, privacy concerns, and the potential of generative AI for self-diagnosis.

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Alondra Nelson, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, discusses the equitable regulation of AI in disease diagnosis, the implications of the Biden administration's executive order on AI, the need for guardrails in AI similar to genetic testing, and aligning AI with societal values in clinical practice.

Dr. John Ayers from UC San Diego discusses the potential of genAI programs like ChatGPT to enhance communication pathways for better patient outcomes. They explore the effectiveness of AI tools in improving patient care, especially in public health communication. The conversation emphasizes the importance of focusing on clinical endpoints and outcomes in healthcare regulation and research studies.