Connect Sign InYou Keep Using the Word “Diagnosis.” I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
What do you picture in your head when you hear the term "diagnosis" or "diagnostic testing”? Most people imagine a test revealing, for the first time, the answer to a confusing set of symptoms. But diagnosis is better thought of not as a one-time event, but as an iterative, continuous process by which information is gathered and incorporated into medical decisions. In other words, it's less about individual test results and more about how we process and integrate those results. This becomes even more critical as we enter the artificial intelligence (AI) era, where software algorithms play a growing role in diagnosis. This presentation will take a critical look at the relationship between medical science and diagnostic testing, and how we can preserve that linkage in the setting of complex diagnostic algorithms.
Dr. Brian Jackson is the medical director of business development and is the executive editor of ARUP Consult at ARUP Laboratories. He is also an adjunct professor of pathology and biomedical informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Jackson received a master’s degree in medical informatics and a medical degree from the University of Utah. He completed a clinical pathology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and was a National Library of Medicine Informatics fellow at the University of Utah. Dr. Jackson is certified in clinical pathology by the American Board of Pathology and is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association and a fellow of the College of American Pathologists. His research interests include economic analysis of diagnostic testing, physician utilization of laboratory tests, and corporate social responsibility in healthcare.
