Artificial Intelligence

FarmaTrust CEO Raja Sharif says blockchain ensures greater data integrity in areas such as AI, analytics and regulatory reporting, which can increase public confidence in the use of data.

"We think every problem can be solved with machine learning," says one AI and analytics expert. "That’s not the case."

Developed by Pensiamo, the CognitiveRx tool monitors market demand and uses machine learning to help maintain inventory levels during drug shortages.

Srinivasan Suresh, MD, VP at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, says start with engaging the clinicians and have a team to standardize care to reduce variation for measurable changes.

Tina Esposito, chief health information officer at Advocate Aurora Health, says her organization's data and analytics heart failure pilot realized a 23 percent reduction in utilization.

Ilia Tulchinsky, engineering director at Google Cloud Healthcare & Life Sciences, explains how an ecosystem of applications that include APIs could enable the free flow of innovation.  

To bolster the effort, Philips pathology technology will be deployed across the Mount Sinai Health System to support greater efficiency and help improve patient care.

The companies will apply analytics to Sanofi's real-world database to better understand what treatments work and what technologies could be used for more personalized medicine.

A natural language processing algorithm has been helping the New York health system gain new insights from its unstructured notes, boosting its value-based care and pop health efforts.

Start with an understanding of what the data quality issues are and the differences in documentation and in workflow from different providers, says Michael Schwarz, executive director of IS at Indiana University Health System.