Forbes November 13, 2019
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The idea of “big data” transforming healthcare has existed for decades, but recent technological innovations are finally making big data accessible and usable in an actionable way. Artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced natural-language programming (NLP) tools are now able to read unstructured data, which constitutes the majority of healthcare data. Complex rules algorithms can now rapidly process such data to identify key clinical features in both individual patients and patient subpopulations. These machine learning approaches can quickly and clearly establish which patients are nonresponsive to current therapies, as well as potential synergistic combinations that could...