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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Foundations of Agentic AI for Healthcare

  • Distinguishing agentic systems from standard tool-only LLM applications
  • Defining autonomy limits, policy frameworks, and human oversight mechanisms
  • Navigating the healthcare data landscape, including EHR, FHIR, and PHI constraints

Designing Agent Workflows

  • Structuring planning processes, memory management, tool integration, and reflection cycles
  • Advanced prompt engineering, function/tool definition, and strategic action selection
  • Implementing effective state management and orchestration patterns

Retrieval-Augmented Agents

  • Efficient ingestion and chunking of medical documentation
  • Utilizing embeddings, vector databases, and assessing relevance accuracy
  • Ensuring response grounding and developing robust citation strategies

Healthcare Integrations and Interoperability

  • Foundational knowledge of FHIR/SMART for seamless agent connectivity
  • Processing both structured and unstructured clinical data effectively
  • Managing eventing, API integrations, and comprehensive audit trails

Safety, Risk, and Governance

  • Implementing guardrails, conducting red-teaming exercises, and designing fail-safe systems
  • Proper handling of PHI, de-identification techniques, and strict access controls
  • Establishing human-in-the-loop review processes and clear escalation pathways

Evaluation and Monitoring

  • Conducting offline evaluations, managing golden datasets, and defining key performance indicators
  • Detecting hallucinations and performing rigorous factuality checks
  • Enhancing observability, logging practices, and managing cost/latency metrics

Deployment Patterns and Hands-on Lab

  • Evaluating API-based versus on-premise model deployment strategies
  • Constructing a retrieval-augmented agent using LangChain, FastAPI, and ChromaDB
  • Simulating incident response scenarios and executing rollback procedures

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Proficiency in fundamental Python programming concepts
  • Practical experience with data analysis or Machine Learning (ML) workflows
  • Working knowledge of healthcare data standards and concepts, including EHR and FHIR

Target Audience

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

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