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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Fundamentals of Agentic AI in Healthcare

  • Distinguishing agentic systems from simple tool-using LLM applications
  • Defining autonomy limits, policies, and the role of human supervision
  • Overview of the healthcare data environment and its constraints (EHR, FHIR, PHI)

Architecting Agent Workflows

  • Integration of planning, memory, tool utilisation, and reflective cycles
  • Techniques in prompt engineering, function/tool integration, and decision selection
  • Managing state and orchestration strategies

Implementing Retrieval-Augmented Agents

  • Ingesting and segmenting medical documents
  • Utilising embeddings, vector databases, and assessing relevance
  • Ensuring grounded responses and effective citation methods

Healthcare System Integration and Interoperability

  • Essentials of FHIR/SMART for connecting agents to healthcare systems
  • Handling both structured and unstructured clinical data
  • Managing event streams, APIs, and maintaining audit trails

Safety, Risk Management, and Governance

  • Establishing guardrails, conducting red-teaming, and designing fail-safes
  • Managing PHI, implementing de-identification, and enforcing access controls
  • Incorporating human-in-the-loop reviews and defining escalation protocols

Assessment and Continuous Monitoring

  • Conducting offline assessments, using golden sets, and defining KPIs
  • Detecting hallucinations and verifying factuality
  • Managing observability, logging, and optimising cost and latency

Deployment Strategies and Practical Lab

  • Choosing between API-based and on-premise model deployments
  • Developing a retrieval-augmented agent using LangChain, FastAPI, and ChromaDB
  • Simulating incident response and executing rollback procedures

Summary and Future Directions

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of Python programming
  • Practical experience with data analysis or machine learning workflows
  • Familiarity with healthcare data standards (e.g., EHR, FHIR)

Target Audience

  • Healthcare data scientists and ML engineers
  • Clinical informatics and digital health product teams
  • IT leaders and innovation managers within the healthcare sector

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