Inside Precision Medicine March 26, 2024
By William A. Haseltine, PhD

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the most promising new tools in healthcare. Not only has it been used to improve individual health outcomes by streamlining diagnosis and treatment, but recent studies have begun to explore its ability to improve public health outcomes as well.

Current research seeks to understand the potential of AI models to improve health inequity by addressing social determinants of health (SDOH). These models use several methods to identify, aggregate, and export SDOH data such as housing or employment status from thousands of doctor’s notes and other unstructured data in health records.

By leveraging AI, healthcare organizations can address the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. For example, prediction models combining claims data with...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Equity/SDOH, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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