At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now” for a “visionary, futuristic system” to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial fields who described promising technologies and roadblocks to change. Part I in this series of blogs describes some current and potential uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning–including IBM’s Watson. Part II lays out potential solutions in health care delivery and long term care. Part III focuses on issues and efforts in behavioral and population health–and roadblocks to change.
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Bio-IT World Review: BIG Data; BIG Promise; BIG CHALLENGES.
New Cambridge Observer’s Anita Harris on BIO-IT World 2012, describing the promise and problems presented by burgeoning of health care data.
Scientia Advisors launches life science "knowledge network"
ScientiaNET, Scientia Advisors’ new knowledge network, now 10 thousand strong, is accepting new member/experts and clients for life science consultation, surveys, and opinions.