Healthcare IT News January 18, 2019
AI will be key to the high-intensity modeling needed for personalized care – and New Zealand is offering a unique test bed for the development of new approaches.
Electronic health records are very good at being repositories for valuable patient data. But they need help when it comes to putting that data to work for more innovative care delivery. The ever-expanding volume and variety of clinical and social-determinant factors will require more advanced technologies to be optimally harnessed for precision medicine.
Enter AI and machine learning, which “will play a growing role in healthcare, under two main categories – generating knowledge and processing data,” said Auckland, New Zealand-based Kevin Ross, who will speak next month at HIMSS19.
Ross is general...