ABSTRACT

This chapter aims to emphasize the need to educate clinicians on the ABCs of IT at the training stage of their careers. Unfortunately, research suggests that healthcare IT (HIT) has yet to make significant inroads into the medical school curriculum, although this is slowly changing Clinicians are accustomed to using diagnostic and therapeutic tools they understand. They are not only interested in evidence to support the effectiveness and safety of these interventions but also want to know that the mechanism of action behind each of these interventions is plausible and consistent with the laws of nature governing human physiology and biochemistry. Although well-crafted video tutorials are one way to convince reluctant clinicians to embrace artificial intelligence-enhanced algorithms, they are by no means the only way. Another option is to build an understandable rationale into the neural network itself.