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Home Research Research Library Data Transformation to Advance AI/ML Research and Implementation in Primary Care Data Transformation to Advance AI/ML Research and Implementation in Primary Care 2025 Author(s) Tsai, Timothy, Lee, Julie J, Phillips, Robert L, and Lin, Steven Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Health Information Technology (HIT), and Practice Innovations Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in health care is accelerating at a breathtaking pace. As the largest health care delivery platform, primary care is where the power, opportunity, and future of AI/ML are most likely to be realized in the broadest and most ambitious scale. However, there is a relative lack of organized, open, large-scale primary care datasets to attract industry and academia in primary care–focused research and development. This article proposes a set of high-level considerations around the data transformation that is needed to enable the growth of AI/ML applications in primary care. These considerations call for automation of data collection, organization of fragmented data, identification of primary care–specific use cases, integration of AI/ML into human workflows, and surveillance for unintended consequences. By unlocking the power of its data, primary care can play a leading role in advancing health care AI/ML to support patients, clinicians, and the health of the nation. ABFM Research Read all 2014 Creating the Individual Scope of Practice (I-SOP) scale Go to Creating the Individual Scope of Practice (I-SOP) scale 2016 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification 2018 Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending Go to Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending 2024 Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending Go to Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending
Author(s) Tsai, Timothy, Lee, Julie J, Phillips, Robert L, and Lin, Steven Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Health Information Technology (HIT), and Practice Innovations Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2014 Creating the Individual Scope of Practice (I-SOP) scale Go to Creating the Individual Scope of Practice (I-SOP) scale 2016 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification 2018 Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending Go to Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending 2024 Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending Go to Measuring Primary Healthcare Spending
2014 Creating the Individual Scope of Practice (I-SOP) scale Go to Creating the Individual Scope of Practice (I-SOP) scale
2016 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification
2018 Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending Go to Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending
