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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Democratizing AI in Health Care

Perhaps surprising because of the particularly technical aspect of healthcare data.   Interpretation of results are also most important.

Democratizing artificial intelligence in health care  in MIT News

Leo Celi, a researcher at MIT and a physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, leads a global series of health care hackathons, or datathons, to bring doctors and data scientists together and encourage hospitals to make use of their electronic medical records.

Hackathons promote doctor-data scientist collaboration and expanded access to electronic medical-records to improve patient care.

By Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence 

An artificial intelligence program that’s better than human doctors at recommending treatment for sepsis may soon enter clinical trials in London. The machine learning model is part of a new way of practicing medicine that mines electronic medical-record data for more effective ways of diagnosing and treating difficult medical problems, including sepsis, a blood infection that kills an estimated 6 million people worldwide each year. 

The discovery of a promising treatment strategy for sepsis didn’t come about the regular way, through lengthy, carefully-controlled experiments. Instead, it emerged during a free-wheeling hackathon in London in 2015. ... " 

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