We then tested a simple correction pipeline: WhisperX transcription → LLM correction
Passing transcripts through an LLM told to “adjust the errors” reduced word error rates by ~4.5–6.9 pts
This also narrowed the gap between groups
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some patterns stood out
1) the gap was largest in base Whisper with ~11 point higher word error rates for non-native speakers
2) errors clustered in clinically dense language
3) more biomedical terminology > higher error rates - medication/disease names were especially vulnerable
We evaluated Whisper/WhisperX
Participants read clinical texts covering typical scenarios (colonoscopies or desc. clinical history)
We include
• native & non-native English speakers
• with and without medical training
Across models, errors were higher for non-native speakers
GI fellow Jamil Samaan noticed something odd when using AI ambient scribes and speech transcription tools
Clinicians with non-native English accents appeared to confuse the model
He and Yassi Fatapour decided to investigate, now out in npj Digital Medicine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New editorial in BioData Mining: A crisis of overconfidence in clinical AI led by @cedarssinaihsu.bsky.social PhD student, Jacob Berkowitz.
Why sounding confident can be more dangerous than being inaccurate, and why calibration needs to be central in clinical AI.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can now connect ChatGPT to an Apple Watch.
So I imported 29 mil steps & 6 mil heartbeats into the new ChatGPT Health.
It graded my heart health an F. ⁉️
Cardiologist @erictopol.bsky.social called it “baseless.”
Any bot claiming to give health insights shouldn’t be this clueless. Even in beta. 🧵
I suspect Holly Mitchell is going to find in the coming years that she shares Henry Waxman's legacy as someone who blocked a whole part of the LA region from getting rail for decades due to needless, pointless capitulation to fearmongering. Her time on the Metro Board will not be remembered kindly.
Excited to announce our new project with ARPA-H which advances methods to artificially accelerate the aging of organoids to study drug toxicities over time!! A current huge gap in our understanding and our models.
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
Is "Agent Engineering" the next big thing? Getting so-called "AI Agents" to work together effectively isn't trivial. @moorejh.bsky.social and I discuss the need for rigorous development in our latest editorial in BioData Mining
biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Deskilling? cacm.acm.org/news/the-ai-... #deskilling #ai
👀 Health AI PhD Information Session hosted by Cedars-Sinai! This event is an opportunity for interested students to learn more.
November 21 @ 8 AM PT
Register: forms.office.com/r/vMreBMZQak
Application period for the Cedars-Sinai PhD Program in Health AI is now OPEN! Come study cutting-edge AI in a top hospital with clinical rotations, clinical collaborators, & easy access to clinical data - please RP! www.cedars-sinai.edu/education/gr... #artificialintelligence #bioinformatics #phd
Nice piece in the NYT about the risks of "magical thinking" with AI that allow big tech to hype their products www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o... #artificialintelligence #magic #hype #llms
Loving my state rn.
California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
AI methods are great tools for advancing drug safety surveillance. We show that LLMs can accurately identify and extract essential concepts from messy product drug labels. Just published in _Drug Safety_!
Great work led by @undinagislad!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We used AI to audit 21,000+ RCTs. The result? -- only 15% of trials fully comply with CONSORT guidelines. Transparency in clinical trials has a long way to go.
Amazing work by Apoorva in my group!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The top three science funders are the US, China, and Japan. The three fund more science than every other country, combined.
In 2024, the US funded more scientific research than China and Japan, combined. The US also funds more science than every other country except for Japan and China, combined.
The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science is now online. Take a look at the most read article from this new volume, "Spatial Transcriptomics Brings New Challenges and Opportunities for Trajectory Inference" arevie.ws/45D2NWD
@marylynritchie.bsky.social @tatonetti.bsky.social
This creates a fun game that rewards superfluous, outlandish (dare I say outre?) verbiage.
With the correct rhetorical device you can make complete jibberish sound like poetry. Just ask Shakespeare (or better read Forsyth's The Elements of Eloquence)
From left to right. Patient facing left and looking at their phone. Doctor facing right looking at a tablet.
Just came across this fail. Literally everything that's wrong with AI/tech in healthcare. Not only is the patient and doctor buried in their devices, but they're facing AWAY from each other 🤦♂️!!
Technology should facilitate and center the humanity of healthcare. Not do whatever this is.
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
What is Vibe Coding and how can it be used to advance biomedical research? @tatonetti.bsky.social & I explain in this editorial biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #bioinformatics #datascience #coding #vibecoding
Vibe coding is coming for biomedical software development, my first editorial as Co-Editor-in-Chief of @BioDataMining with @moorejh.bsky.social
biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
If anyone is wondering, yes we will be monitoring the safety and side effects of drugs from the moment they hit the market
So the market for our drug safety monitoring algorithms just opened up 👀
Excited that our paper on GenAI-based text normalization is out at Journal of Biomedical Informatics!
If you ever had a bunch of messy text and need to map it to a controlled terminology, then this is the method for you.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Special 👏 to Jacob Berkowitz!!
Learn observational data from the best. @ColumbiaDBMI and @OHDSI are offering summer school to learn all the real-world-data analysis tips and tricks.
columbiauniversity1.regfox.com/ohdsi-summer...
✅ PASSED SENATE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE: SB 445 by @scottwiener.bsky.social that streamlines permit approval process for transit projects to tackle cities that cause costly delay against transit.
What a fabulous discussion and meeting! Off to a fun start.
