Neil Sarkar
insarkar.bsky.social
Neil Sarkar
@insarkar.bsky.social
Biomedical Informatician, CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute, Associate Professor of Medical Science at Brown University, #julialang enthusiast, and dad of a human, two dogs, two cats, and a parrot
Check out the latest recipe in Neil’s Cookery: a pork-based dog food with a dash of Indian spice!
Nutritious, cost-effective, and easy to make with everyday ingredients. Augi & Chaz approved!!
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Pork & Veggies with a Dash of Desi Spice [S1V4]
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April 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
HIEs evolving to HDUs... As necessary for our nation as the federal highway system: 10.0.4.69/jamia/ocaf032 #Informatics
March 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We are recruiting for a Lecturer to teach AI and Statistics for Health courses at Brown University-- please share! apply.interfolio.com/162962
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February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Launching Neil's Cookery: Healthy Food, Healthy Pet! (Subscribe and share!) www.youtube.com/@neilscookery
Neil's Cookery
Join us at Neil’s Cookery, where we create nutritious, homemade meals for dogs, cats, birds, fish, and people. Our step-by-step videos make it easy to prepare balanced, species-specific meals using re...
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February 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Why is #JuliaLang a great home for a flavor of the tidyverse? What does Tidier.jl do? Will you get sent to Julia jail for using an ecosystem inspired by #rstats?

In this convo with @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social and Michael Tiemann, I don’t have answers, but I have thoughts!

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Tidier.jl with Karandeep Singh
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December 30, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Electronic Health Records are increasingly seen as a source of clinician burnout. We reviewed interventions to reduce burnout, and the TLDR is that there is still much work to do!
Interventions to Reduce Electronic Health Record-Related Burnout: A Systematic Review
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December 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
$200/month? Yeah, no. If there were reason to drive us away from ChatGPT to LLAMA, this might be it!
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Thank you to all 180 members of the ASTP, including @mickytripathi.bsky.social , who keep moving things forward to the benefit of all of us, especially our patients! #ASTP2024
December 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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The opportunities, challenges and outlook for LLM-based agents in medicine and healthcare—our paper published today

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LLM-based agentic systems in medicine and healthcare - Nature Machine Intelligence
Large language model-based agentic systems can process input information, plan and decide, recall and reflect, interact and collaborate, leverage various tools and act. This opens up a wealth of oppor...
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December 5, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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ASTP and CancerX want to give you money (and the title of “prize winner”!) to improve cancer care navigation. Check it out! www.herox.com/CancerNaviga... #ASTP2024
Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs | HeroX
Support care Navigators with digital tools that integrate openly available datasets and APIs. Enhance patient care and support systems.
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December 4, 2024 at 9:52 PM
There is a difference between "intelligence" and leveraging AI in "intelligent ways"... The latter being human intelligence, and requires experience and insights that we have yet to see in any of the LLMs...
How close is AI to human-level intelligence?
Large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But they are unlikely to reach this milestone on their own.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work
December 3, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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I am super excited about this new leadership role in my research group, @d4cg.bsky.social. Help build novel methods for getting patient data directly from the EHR. Please apply! sam.am/PD2024
This will help our cancer survivorship work as well as other projects like our monogenic epilepsy commons.
December 3, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Why the large language models of today cannot reach AGI, a new Nature feature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How close is AI to human-level intelligence?
Large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But they are unlikely to reach this milestone on their own.
www.nature.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
It is important to consider other drivers of disparities, beyond race/ethnicity-- e.g., immigrant status. This is especially essential in considering differing cultures around key prevention approaches, such as cancer screenings.
An Intersectional Approach to Cervical Cancer Screening Disparities by Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status | Journal of Women's Health
Background: Disparities in cervical cancer (CC) screening exist within racial/ethnic minority and immigrant groups. However, few studies have explored the joint influence of race/ethnicity and immigrant status on screening, and the disparities that have been identified by existing studies remain incompletely explained. This study aims to identify the joint influence of race/ethnicity and immigrant status on CC screening and elucidate the barriers contributing to identified disparities. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis of 25,660 U.S. women from the 2005, 2010, and 2015 National Health Interview Surveys was done. The CC screening up-to-date status of cases was analyzed by race/ethnicity and immigrant status using logistic regression models. Conceptualized mediators were added to models to identify their contribution to identified disparities. Results: All immigrants had lower screening odds than U.S.-born non-Hispanic White women with foreign-born non-Hispanic Asians having the lowest odds (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 0.36, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.26–0.49) followed by foreign-born non-Hispanic White (aOR: 0.52, 95% CI: 0.36–0.76), Hispanic/Latinx (aOR: 0.58, 95% CI: 0.47–0.73), and non-Hispanic Black women (aOR: 0.62, 95% CI: 0.38–0.99). Adjusting for only socioeconomic status or access to care attenuated the aOR: for foreign-born Hispanic/Latinx and non-Hispanic Black women only. Adjusting simultaneously for language and acculturation attenuated the aOR: for all immigrants. Conclusions: Disparities in CC screening were only found in the immigrant populations of various racial/ethnic groups. Targeting insurance and health care access may address disparities in immigrant Hispanic/Latinx and non-Hispanic Black women. Focusing on culturally and linguistically competent care and education may be more crucial for immigrant non-Hispanic Asian and White women.
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December 3, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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TLab @ Cedars-Sinai is looking for summer interns in data science, drug safety science, and health AI!

🔬 Research drug safety, cancer care & more
📍 LA-based (Pacific Design Center)
🗓 Apply by Jan 27!
👉 Learn & grow with us!

More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#HealthAI #Internship
Internship - TLAB 25
Description TLab has summer internship opportunities in data science and health AI. As a summer research intern in the Tatonetti Lab at Cedars-Sinai you will conduct research to improve drug safety an...
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December 2, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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"How health IT and AI can improve patient safety gaps while mitigating unintended consequences." @jama.com #medsky #ArtificialIntelligence

Thanks! @hardeepsinghmd.bsky.social

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December 2, 2024 at 12:35 AM
AI will be an essential tool in the modern era of science, and we must equip future generations to demonstrate their proficiency. I allow and REQUIRE students in my courses to use AI to develop their responses. I then challenge them to identify what AI missed or got wrong...
Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning of Science: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research - Research in Science Education
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education is transforming various dimensions of the education system, such as instructional practices, assessment strategies, and administrative processes. I...
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December 2, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Viewpoint: To safely integrate #AI into healthcare, healthcare organizations (HCOs) and clinicians must proactively mitigate risks through pre-implementation quality checks, ongoing monitoring, and patient/clinician engagement.

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November 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Opening lecture to an “Intro to R” course in Ecuador namedrops #JuliaLang and Tidier.jl. 🚀🧹

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November 29, 2024 at 6:53 AM
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Submit an abstract to join us in Puerto Rico!

✨focus on real-world deployment of AI into the clinic with practical, in-depth discussions
✨intimate setting for detailed conversations & networking to start new collaborations
✨beachfront hotel 🌴
The SAIL 2025 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS is open! Join us May 6-9 in Puerto Rico! In-person attendance is limited to those with accepted work. @NEJM_AI will award scholarships to top abstracts. Travel support is also available. Submit here by January 17: sail.health/event/sail-2.... #SAIL25
November 27, 2024 at 6:49 AM
We are now recruiting our first cohort of Master's students in Health Informatics at Brown University in Providence, RI. You will have the opportunity to impact real world healthcare delivery. Consider joining us and share with those who may be interested! graduateprograms.brown.edu/graduate-pro...
Health Informatics
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November 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I have been tinkering with using generative AI to help me with my development work, and will say that I am VERY impressed! Hours saved. Now, the question will be, can I as a scientist do more with AI and rely less on staff programmers? www.ibm.com/think/topics...
What is AI code-generation? | IBM
Using AI code generation software is straightforward, available for many programming languages and accessible to both developers and non-developers.
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November 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM
The potential for LLMs to enable next level research is astounding! This is what we dreamed of decades ago… www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matching patients to clinical trials with large language models - Nature Communications
Patient recruitment is challenging for clinical trials. Here, the authors introduce TrialGPT, an end-to-end framework for zero-shot patient-to-trial matching with large language models.
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November 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM