Healthcare IT News February 19, 2020
At HIMSS20, two experts from Optum will offer tips and best practices for clinical and operational machine learning deployments.
Given all the relentless hype about its artificial intelligence and its transformative potential for healthcare, it would be understandable if some health systems might be casting about in search of AI or machine learning projects they could try.
But that sort of rushed, ad hoc approach is precisely the wrong one to take, says Tushar Mehrotra, senior vice president of analytics at Optum.
“The only way you are going to get value out of AI is to link the clinical or business problem to the organization’s overall strategy and make sure you have a rich enough data set to train the...