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 Duration 14 hours

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Foundations of Agentic AI in Healthcare

  • Distinguishing agentic systems from tool-only LLM applications
  • Defining autonomy boundaries, policies, and human oversight
  • The healthcare data landscape and its constraints (EHR, FHIR, PHI)

Designing Agent Workflows

  • Planning, memory, tool utilization, and reflection loops
  • Prompt engineering, functions/tools, and action selection strategies
  • State management and orchestration patterns

Retrieval-Augmented Agents

  • Ingesting and chunking medical documents
  • Utilizing embeddings, vector stores, and assessing relevance
  • Grounding responses and implementing citation strategies

Healthcare Integrations and Interoperability

  • FHIR/SMART fundamentals for agent connectivity
  • Managing structured and unstructured clinical data
  • Eventing, APIs, and maintaining audit trails

Safety, Risk, and Governance

  • Implementing guardrails, red-teaming, and fail-safe design
  • Handling PHI, de-identification, and enforcing access controls
  • Establishing human-in-the-loop review and escalation paths

Evaluation and Monitoring

  • Offline evaluations, defining golden sets, and setting KPIs
  • Detecting hallucinations and verifying factuality
  • Observability, logging, and managing cost/latency

Deployment Patterns and Hands-on Lab

  • Choosing between API-based and on-prem model deployment
  • Developing a retrieval-augmented agent using LangChain, FastAPI, and ChromaDB
  • Simulated incident response and rollback procedures

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of basic Python programming
  • Practical experience with data analysis or machine learning workflows
  • Familiarity with key healthcare data standards and concepts (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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