Under the joint banner of the APLAR (Asia Pacific League Against Rheumatism) Digital Health & Telemedicine SIG, and the Indian Association of Rheumatology (IRA) Digital Health SIG, an online workshop on Generative Artificial Intelligence was carried out from KIMS. There were 131 registrations from across the nation for the event.
Experts from Singapore, Dr. Terence Tan, AI research, former Immunologist and member of the Amazon Web Services; and Dr. Anindita Santosa, Rheumatologist and AI startup founder took the lead in the workshop. This was carried out with 20 min lectures followed by 20 min interactive sessions. The experts demonstrated the utility of Generative AI in different fields relevant to rheumatologists, starting from patient flow management, educating patients, creating awareness on social media and so on.
The workshops demonstrated prompt engineering and optimizing outputs, how to have human overview, built custom tools, and avoiding hallucinations. The theme of the workshop was “Co-pilot, not auto-pilot”. The participants took active part in the workshop, focusing the flow and adding to the overall value.
The entire workshop was conducted by Prof. Sakir Ahmed from KIMS who is the convenor of the IRA Digital Health SIG and the chair for the APLAR Digital Health & Telemedicine SIG. He was helped by Emeritus Professor Dr. Ramnath Misra and Head of Department Prof. Prasanta Padhan and Dr. Debashish Maikap.
Dr. Sakir expressed his thanks to the Hon’ble Founder for providing the platform for such cross-discipline cutting technology work at KIMS, and also to the APLAR and the IRA for the workshop.
