Chief Healthcare Executive March 30, 2025
For artificial intelligence to realize its full potential in healthcare, models must be trained on high quality data, but unstructured and siloed data are hampering progress.
Hospitals produce 50 petabytes of data per year, which is more than double the amount of data managed by the Library of Congress in 2022.
The ability of providers, payers, and researchers to effectively leverage that health data has the potential to improve patient and population outcomes, spur innovation and medical advances, increase operational efficiency, and drive down overall healthcare costs.
Unfortunately, leveraging health data can be extremely challenging because a significant proportion of that data is unstructured, in the form of PDFs, faxes, or prose-format clinical notes.
Even if health data is structured,...