Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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(Mis)Treating Medically by Pithiness
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA My last blog post was “(Mis)Leading by Pithiness: Three Laws of Aphorisms,” and I think the concepts there apply also to medicine. The stakes seem even higher in medical care, so if leading by aphorism can be fraught, making medical decisions by aphorism seems potentially even moreso. If you…
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Some of My Healthcare AI Thoughts as of 5/2026
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA Here are some summaries of my thoughts on various topics related to healthcare AI as of 5/2026, mostly from a talk I recently gave at the Illinois Society of Health and Risk Management. These may include a mix of my opinions and facts. My thoughts and this content…
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AI to Help Assess Clinical Quality: Example (potential) Darth Vecdor Use Case + Configs
Darth Vecdor is open-source, freely-available software to create knowledge bases using LLMs (like ChatGPT). With some trepidation, I share a set of example Darth Vedor configurations that may facilitate clinical quality measurment and improvement in healthcare.
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Darth Vecdor Update: Toward a Shareable Knowledge Base Library
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA Recently, I announced the free, open-source, public availability of Darth Vecdor (DV), a tool I wrote for creating graph databases (“knowledge bases” or “knowledge graphs“) using LLMs. For more info about DV, see either or both of: Or… visit the GitHub site to see more information and download…
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Introducing Darth Vecdor: A Free, Open-Source Platform to Create Knowledge Graphs Using LLMs (such as ChatGPT)
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA I Wanted a Comprehensive Medical Knowledge Graph For decades, I have hypothesized that a comprehensive medical knowledge database (aka, “knowledge base” or “knowledge graph”) would enable radical positive transformation in healthcare. I wanted a database containing relationships between concepts, like: With such a database, I imagined we could…
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An Innovation (I think) Needed to Address an Aging Population
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA The Problem Have you ever seen the following in a movie or TV show? Someone has had a tragic accident or medical event and needs to undergo physical therapy to get better, but they feel hopeless and reluctant. Then a dedicated person or team of doctors, nurses, therapists,…
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Many say AI, including ChatGPT, isn’t good enough to be your doctor. We need a moonshot to change that.
Access to healthcare is a longstanding and worsening problem in the US for many. They say AI isn’t good enough to replace doctors, and if that’s right, then how will we address the supply/demand mismatch? We need a government-sponsored “moonshot” program to make great and empathetic AI doctors a reality.
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