AI in Healthcare June 28, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has worsened or exposed myriad problems in healthcare delivery. One is the way patients find physicians and hospitals. AI can help with that.
So say two executives with healthcare AI startup Health at Scale in San Jose, California. Mohammed Saeed, MD, PhD, and Zahoor Elahi, make their case in Quartz.
After running through the deficiencies in popular doctor-shopping options like online reviews (one person’s opinion is just that) and national rankings by informed media (subjective perceptions color objective findings), the authors highlight a sleeping giant ready to rise and (data) mine: under-tapped Big Data in far-flung EHRs.
The problem there is enormity and complexity. Which is where AI could come in.
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