Interviews

Expanding Access to Mental Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence

by Jessica Kent

Across the country today, it is widely acknowledged that access to mental healthcare is just as important as clinical care when it comes to overall wellness. Mental health conditions are incredibly...

How Big Data Analytics Can Mitigate COVID-19 Health Disparities

by Jessica Kent

While the rapid spread of COVID-19 has exposed many unflattering healthcare truths, the glaring health disparities highlighted by the pandemic are perhaps the most detrimental to patient health. For...

Using An AI-Powered Chatbot to Meet Patient Needs During COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, artificial intelligence has helped the healthcare industry navigate the novel and unknown. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated twice...

Harnessing Big Data to Enhance Population Health Management

by Jessica Kent

As the industry continues its quest to provide holistic, comprehensive, and cost-effective care to patients, the term population health management has emerged as a crucial task for organizations to...

Leveraging Synthetic Data for COVID-19 Research, Collaboration

by Jessica Kent

While the spread of COVID-19 has presented healthcare with many challenges, the sheer amount of data generated by the pandemic has been one of the biggest tests the industry has faced so far. For more...

Forecasting COVID-19 with Predictive Analytics, Big Data Tools

by Jessica Kent

In the midst of a situation as uncertain as the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry has sought to use big data and predictive analytics tools to better understand the virus and its spread. For...

Enhancing Cervical Cancer Screenings with Artificial Intelligence

by Jessica Kent

The potential for artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and radiology has been well-documented in healthcare research. From earlier detection and more accurate assessments, to less...

How Patient Matching, Data Standardization Could Combat COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

As the healthcare industry continues to seek solutions to track and control the spread of COVID-19, patient matching and data standardization have surfaced as effective responses to the pandemic. For...

How Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Can Determine COVID-19 Severity

by Jessica Kent

When COVID-19 first started spreading across the country, hospital capacity and the allocation of resources were among the top concerns for healthcare leaders. For more coronavirus updates, visit...

Addressing the Social Determinants of Health with AI, Partnerships

by Jessica Kent

In the healthcare industry today, it is widely understood that optimal health outcomes require addressing patients’ clinical and non-clinical needs – their social determinants of...

Collecting Genomic Data to Accelerate COVID-19 Drug Discovery

by Jessica Kent

In the race to find potential treatments and therapies for COVID-19, genomic data is being generated with unprecedented frequency. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated...

Using Big Data to Prioritize Cancer Treatment During COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has threatened to overwhelm hospitals and health systems across the country, leading many providers to defer surgeries and other procedures for an unknown period of...

Sharing SDOH Data for Improved Population Health Management

by Jessica Kent

With the healthcare industry steadily moving toward more holistic, preventive care delivery, health systems have increasingly recognized the critical role the social determinants of health play in the...

How Will Big Data Analytics Factor into the Next Phase of COVID-19?

by Jessica Kent

As COVID-19 has made its way across the US and around the world, healthcare stakeholders from all areas of the industry have prioritized containing the outbreak. Leaders at all levels have utilized...

Using Automated Risk Scoring to Spot Pediatric Patient Deterioration

by Jessica Kent

In medicine, risk scoring is one of the best methods providers can use to anticipate and prepare for an adverse event. Using patient data and analytics tools, clinicians can determine the likelihood...

Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Big Data Analytics Issue

by Jessica Kent

The rapid, global spread of COVID-19 has brought advanced big data analytics tools front and center, with entities from all sectors of the healthcare industry seeking to monitor and reduce the impact...

Leveraging AI for COVID-19 Outreach, Population Health Management

by Jessica Kent

In the time since the COVID-19 outbreak has escalated to a full-blown global pandemic, buzzwords like artificial intelligence, population health management, and the social determinants of health have...

How Clinical Decision Support Adherence Leads to Better Patient Data

by Jessica Kent

As the volume of healthcare data increases and the shift to value-based care accelerates, clinical decision support tools are becoming more and more critical to ensure quality care delivery. From...

Cross-Sector AI Partnerships Curb Hospital Readmissions

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Hospital readmissions are associated with billions of dollars in unnecessary healthcare costs. Over 3.3 million readmissions were associated with $41.3 billion in healthcare spending in 2011...

Overcoming Bias in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Artificial intelligence is often seen as the silver bullet to the healthcare industry’s numerous problems. Machine learning technologies have been shown to more quickly and accurately read...