What to look for at ISPOR25 - Artificial Intelligence
After Modelling and Regulations & Pricing, and just a few days before ISPOR25, here is my take on the potentially interesting sessions on Artificial Intelligence (AI, which generally means: the use of Generative AI, or GenAI, in HEOR). First, Sven Klijn, William Rawlinson, and Tim Reason are again offering their introductory course on Applied Generative AI for HEOR. Last year, I followed it in Barcelona, and it was nice. In my opinion, “nice” means that although I didn’t learn much more than previous presentations by the authors and my own experience, it was a great course for beginners because it struck the right balance between theory (which too many sessions end up only covering) and practical examples. Don’t expect hands-on exercises (that would be too long, and the course synopsis doesn’t mention that either). But “nice” to me means that the presenters dared to show actual working code, with all the humility that it implies. This year, they mention they’ll cover Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agents. Hopefully, their coverage of these aspects will be as good as last year’s on the other topics. ...