Episodes 21
Avg. Duration 33m
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Since Jul 2024
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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65%
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Medical attention is a podcast about artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine for busy people working in health. We bring you clinically relevant updates from the world of AI so you know how it will impact your patients and work.

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In-context: April 6, 2026

Apr 06, 2026 24m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 00:30 - ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage…

Decision theory and metrics for evaluating predictive models

Feb 05, 2026 55m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 01:00 - Technical wrap - ChatGPT and Claude for healthcare, AI scribes 07:40 -…

In-context: January 5, 2026

Jan 05, 2026 20m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 00:30 - LLMs Can Do Medical Harm: Stress-Testing Clinical Decisions Under Social…

In-context: December 2, 2025

Dec 02, 2025 23m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 00:30 - Ambient AI RCTs A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Ambient…

In-context: November 3, 2025

Nov 03, 2025 14m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 00:35 - Scaling Large Language Models for Next-Generation Single-Cell…

Should we be using LLMs for discharge summarisation?

Oct 08, 2025 52m

This episode, we discuss some of the challenges in using large language models (LLMs) for the task of summarising inpatient encounters.  00:30 - Technical wrap - new models, MiT’s State of AI in…

In-context: September 4, 2025

Sep 04, 2025 19m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 00:30 - Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in…

In-context: August 18, 2025

Aug 18, 2025 19m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 00:30 - An Electrocardiogram Foundation Model Built on over 10 Million…

In-context: July 20, 2025

Jul 20, 2025 20m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 1:00 - Clinical knowledge in LLMs does not translate to human interactions 06:45 -…

Ep.10 Are benchmarks broken?

Jun 21, 2025 56m

In this episode, we’re lucky to be joined by Alexandre Sallinen and Tony O’Halloran from the Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health & Humanitarian Response Technologies to discuss how large…

In-context: June 9, 2025

Jun 09, 2025 18m

Here’s a quick wrap of the three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 0:35 - Superhuman performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a…

In-context: May 2025

May 27, 2025 16m

We’re trying out a new episode format! We’ll be doing a quick wrap of the top three papers we found interesting over the last few weeks with some take home points. 01:30 - Patient Reactions to…

Ep.9 AI Mythbusting

May 10, 2025 49m

In this episode, we tackle some common myths about how generative AI works, why this is the case, implications for healthcare and some quick fixes. These myths include 1) that LLMs can explain their…

Ep.8 Algorithmic Bias

Jan 17, 2025 53m

In this episode, we discuss algorithmic bias and fairness in healthcare. We explain what this is, the different definitions of “fairness”, explore the ways in which bias can enter the machine…

Ep.7 Informatics Year in Review

Dec 17, 2024 49m

We’ve returned after an accidental hiatus, just in time for the end of the year. In this episode, we’re joined by the team behind the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Year in Review -…

Ep.6 Human-computer interaction in healthcare

Sep 16, 2024 50m

We’re back! This is the start of our regular discussions about healthcare AI topics and recent literature. On today’s episode -  the 10 commandments of decision support, the checkered history of…

S1E5 Ep.5: Pushed to the LLM-it

Jul 21, 2024 34m

In this episode, we discuss more of the technical aspects of LLM implementation in healthcare, including the following topics: Embeddings Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) Fine tuning Low-Rank…

S1E4 Ep.4: LLM LLMitations

Jul 21, 2024 26m

In this episode, we discuss some concerns about LLM implementation in the healthcare setting, including the following topics: More detail about hallucinations, issues with accuracy  Difficulties of…

S1E3 Ep.3: Introduction to LLMs

Jul 21, 2024 38m

Finally! We’re talking about large language models (LLMs) including ChatGPT. We discuss the following topics: Brief explanation of transformer models and how they work including the attention…

S1E2 Ep.2: Neural networks in healthcare

Jul 21, 2024 31m

In this episodes we give an overview of neural networks and how they’re used in healthcare. We'll be covering the following topics: Definition of neural networks and a high level explanation of their…

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