Join Andrew and guest co-host, Bethany Montoya, RDH as they interview Glenn T. Clark, DDS, MS. Dr. Clark is a Professor at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, Dean for Distance Education, and the Director of the Online Master of Science in Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine program. 

In this episode, Dr. Clark gives us an overview of pain mapping and artificial intelligence highlighting how technology and rigid, well-structured data can help us make predictions about patient health outcomes and assist in patient diagnosis. 

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Episode Highlights

• Pain mapping
• Diagnosis
• The issue: Inconsistency
• Natural language processing
• Checkbox-based medical record system 
• Expert opinion vs. data-based decision tree 

 

Links

https://ostrowon.usc.edu/

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