It’s not uncommon to read stories and listen to podcasts where commentators speculate about artificial intelligence (AI) replacing human functions. While it’s possible that these predictions may come to pass, a look behind the curtain of seemingly magical AI-powered systems will often reveal human beings –highly skilled and intelligent human beings.
This third blog post in our series on IMO Clinical AI (IMO Health’s AI platform) focuses on the people behind the technology. IMO Clinical AI combines various techniques ranging from supervised machine learning (ML) to the use of generative AI – specifically large language models (LLMs) – to address various clinical use cases. IMO Health is also a repository of highly curated and well-organized content relating to clinical concepts that have been harmonized to standard medical vocabularies. These curated datasets have been organized as vector databases and knowledge graphs which serve as critical force multipliers for AI-based systems.
Fueling LLMs, machine learning, and NLP in healthcare
To build and deploy a complex platform like IMO Clinical AI – which involves the use of technologies ranging from optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing (NLP) pipelines that leverage supervised ML models, LLMs, vector databases, and knowledge graphs – requires a team with a wide array of skill sets. The difference between success and failure in deploying AI based systems boils down to the quality and expertise of the people behind those seemingly magical algorithms.
The following is a glimpse at the roles that converge and collaborate to make IMO Clinical AI a state-of-the-art healthcare NLP platform:
| Roles | Responsibilities |
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| AI scientists |
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| AI architects |
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| Semantic web engineers |
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| Software engineers |
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| Site reliability engineers |
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| Information security |
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| Clinicians |
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| Clinical annotators |
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| Clinical terminologists |
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| Product managers |
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| Project managers |
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The listing of roles and responsibilities above is but a glimpse of what it takes to create and deliver IMO Clinical AI. To state the obvious, ultimately, it’s human intelligence that is driving advanced artificial intelligence at IMO Health.
