Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Implementation Science, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Informatics are interdisciplinary fields focused on developing, integrating, and evaluating computational methods and software technologies to improve healthcare delivery, clinical decision-making, and patient outcomes. These fields integrate machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, human-centered design, software engineering, and implementation research to develop innovative, clinically relevant, and user-friendly technologies that support healthcare professionals and patients.
Integrating AI/ML with HCI and implementation science will facilitate the development, usability testing, clinical integration, and real-world evaluation of intelligent software applications, clinical decision support systems, and digital health technologies. These approaches will leverage electronic health records (EHRs), electronic dental records (EDRs), medical and dental imaging, genomics, social determinants of health, and other multimodal data to improve oral healthcare delivery, clinical workflows, patient outcomes, and health equity.
By recruiting a faculty member with expertise in one or more of these areas, we plan to develop an interdisciplinary team of dental domain experts, artificial intelligence experts, informatics experts, imaging experts, computer scientists, software developers, HCI researchers, implementation scientists, and bioinformatics experts to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative AI-driven technologies that improve oral healthcare.