Informatics in the Round
Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS
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That's a Wrap! Celebrating Five Years of Informatics in the Round
Well, here we are—the final episode of Informatics in the Round (we think!). After five incredible years, 38 episodes, and thousands of listeners, we’ve decided it’s time to wrap up this journey. But…
Let's Talk Therapy: AI and Mental Health
What role can AI play in mental health care? Let’s talk about it! In this year's final episode of Informatics in the Round, we explore how AI can assist both patients seeking diagnoses and treatments…
AI in the Workplace: Automation, Job Replacement, and What Makes Us Human
Can AI do our jobs better than we can? Let’s test it! You might have noticed that this episode got off to a strange start… who were those people talking anyway? That, my friends, was Google…
A Virtuous Cycle: When Will We Finally Have Learning Health Systems?
What exactly is a “learning health system”? In several of our episodes, you’ve heard us talk about how data collection has modernized through new technologies and enhanced approaches to clinical…
Chatbots in Healthcare: The Ultimate Turing Test
Live from the studio, it's Informatics in the Round! Okay, we aren't technically live, but we are bringing you an extra special episode from the Penn Engineering Online studio! Since all our guests…
Get Your Dose of Data! An Introduction to Public Health Informatics
Welcome, everyone, to your introductory course in public health informatics! On today's episode, we discuss all things public health, including what it is, how it varies on a state and national…
Healthcare Headaches: Addressing Information Silos in Primary Care
It’s no secret that handling medical data is complicated and time-consuming. Of course, the goal is to address the patient buried beneath the in-depth patient notes, multiple EHRs, and drug…
Life After Leadership: Stories from Inside Biomedical Informatics Departments
What happens when you bring together three previous heads of biomedical informatics departments? A lot of reflection, storytelling, and joking around! In this episode, we bring together guests who…
Decoding Digital Dynamics: Inside the SAFELab with Desmond Upton Patton
How does social media challenge or reinforce our own biases? On this episode, we sat down with the University of Pennsylvania's Desmond Upton Patton to discuss his research on social media and…
Clinical Trials: Are We Whitewashing the Data?
Is every clinical trial created equal? In this episode, we learn some shocking information about the proportions of populations normally included in clinical trials. We specifically cover recent…
Getting ”Dis”ed: Battling Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media
In this episode, we tackle an all-too-familiar topic: misinformation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen how technology and social media can be used to both spread health information awareness…
Reframing Minds: Combatting Medical Inequities with Data
In this episode, we look at the genetic basis for different psychiatric disorders, the interconnectedness of psychological and physical symptoms, and how they apply to our ongoing conversation…
The Future of AI in Medicine: Aladdin’s Lamp, or Pandora’s Box?
In this episode, we talk a bit about the recent advances in large language models, also known as GPT/ChatGPT. We have two wonderful guests: Christoph U. Lehmann, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics,…
Informatics and Health Equity - A Critical Partnership
This episode is going to introduce the concepts of health equity and biomedical informatics. We'll revisit this theme multiple times in 2023 but ST and I wanted to kick off the year with this…
Fixing Medical Documentation - Less ”Whine” with your Cheese!
This episode, ST and I cover one of the hottest non-COVID topics in healthcare today. We strike at the heart of clinician burnout and in particular issues related to unnecessary documentation. Our…
S3E22 Health Information Exchanges: Myths and Realities
This promises to be an incredibly informative podcast for most of us., If there was anything learned from the pandemic, it was the importance of data and helping most of us track SARS CoV2…
Overturning Roe: The Meteor that Hit Health Care
Hello and welcome to Informatics in the Round, a podcast designed to help everyone become a part of the dialog about topics in biomedical informatics. I’m Kevin Johnson, a physician and informatics…
Finding Peace in Portals
This episode of IIR focuses on the functions we want in our EHR portals, including some research into some surprising new uses for portal information. Our special guest is a brilliant young faculty…
Informatics, the EHR and LGBTQ+: Another issue out of the closet!
In this episode of Informatics in the Round we have a small but MIGHTY team. Sarah Bland, a leader in Vanderbilt’s Center for Precision Medicine is here, and offers her usual insight coupled with…
Who, Me? My Road to Informatics
Hello and welcome to Informatics in the Round, a podcast designed to help everyone become a part of the dialog about topics in biomedical informatics. I’m Kevin Johnson, a physician and informatics…
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Informatics in the Round has published 39 episodes since December 2019, covering topics in Education, Life Sciences.
Informatics in the Round is currently declining with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 1h 7m.
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