Modernizing Osteopathic Medicine: Advancing the Next Frontier of DOs-Webinar Recording

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This webinar, offering one CME credit, presents a comprehensive overview of modernizing osteopathic medicine through digital health innovation and AI integration. Dr. Regan Stigman outlines core principles—transparency, equity, and accountability—essential for responsibly incorporating AI into osteopathic medical education and practice. Emphasizing AI as a co-pilot, not a replacement for clinical judgment, she highlights ongoing student-led digital health research at Rocky Vista University, including AI applications for veteran suicide risk and health literacy innovations. Steve Legault of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians discusses the vast and growing digital health landscape, including over 337,000 health apps, AI’s role in diagnostic tools, telehealth, and cybersecurity. He stresses the need for continuous education tailored to practitioners' evolving needs and reviews ACOFP’s initiatives like digital health certificate programs and AI-focused sessions for clinicians and students. Dr. Ravi David-Yared envisions AI as a transformative, fit-to-purpose tool in osteopathy—enhancing personalized care, automating documentation, optimizing practice management, and improving patient outcomes while upholding osteopathic principles. He predicts rapid AI advancements leading to AI-augmented osteopathic education and practice within one to ten years, fostering global healthcare equity, ethical innovation, and substantial research opportunities fueled by osteopathic data. The session concludes with an invitation to join the AOIA Digital Health Innovation Community of Practice to further engage in this evolving frontier.

Keywords

digital technology

osteopathic medicine

patient care

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Digital Health Innovation Community of Practice

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wearable devices

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digital health innovation

AI integration

medical education

student-led research

telehealth

cybersecurity

personalized care

AOIA community