Presented By: Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics DCMB
Tools and Technology Seminar by Doug Craig
“Edge Cases: LLMs in Emergency Medicine”

Abstract
What happens when you bring a large language model to the front lines of care? This talk explores our work building a voice-driven, edge-deployed LLM system for use in the emergency department. With no internet connection, low-latency inference, and a fully local privacy-preserving design, our system runs entirely offline. It adapts dynamically to both the patient and the physician's specialty, enabling tailored language understanding in fast-moving clinical contexts. We'll unpack key design choices, challenges of real-time interaction, and what it takes to make language models clinically useful when seconds matter.
About The Tools & Technology Seminar Series
The DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Series is held in Palmer Commons, Room 2036, each Thursday at 12pm EST. Each seminar highlights a computational tool, technology, or methodology that is under development or in current use and is of special interest to DCMB and University researchers. Presenters are U-M researchers and students.
These seminars are live-streamed and recorded and made available for future viewing via the DCMB YouTube Channel
What happens when you bring a large language model to the front lines of care? This talk explores our work building a voice-driven, edge-deployed LLM system for use in the emergency department. With no internet connection, low-latency inference, and a fully local privacy-preserving design, our system runs entirely offline. It adapts dynamically to both the patient and the physician's specialty, enabling tailored language understanding in fast-moving clinical contexts. We'll unpack key design choices, challenges of real-time interaction, and what it takes to make language models clinically useful when seconds matter.
About The Tools & Technology Seminar Series
The DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Series is held in Palmer Commons, Room 2036, each Thursday at 12pm EST. Each seminar highlights a computational tool, technology, or methodology that is under development or in current use and is of special interest to DCMB and University researchers. Presenters are U-M researchers and students.
These seminars are live-streamed and recorded and made available for future viewing via the DCMB YouTube Channel