by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Big Data
Heres a typical AI study: Rule-based and machine learning algorithms identify patients with systemic sclerosis accurately in the electronic health record in which 3 million “de-identified” charts were scanned to assess machine learning methods for identifying a rare...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Health
Is health measurable? I’m not sure. Diseases are measurable, at least in a binary fashion. You either do or don’t have a disease. In addition, often diseases can be quantified in a non-binary fashion, with internal, fine-grained measurements. For example,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, Healthcare Ethics
Two days ago a received forwarded internal email from Ancestry.com from a nice young lady in the UK who wanted me to review her family tree since genetically it appears we may have a common great, great, grandfather. I declined. Three and a half years ago, after a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Big Data
Whether you work for a large healthcare organization—or trying to disrupt large healthcare organizations—it can be helpful to understand how these huge healthcare companies think about AI and Big Data. To help with this, I consistently read Optum’s blog, called Health...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Health, Healthcare Ethics
After approximately a year off from blogging—a year spent reading and taking courses on subjects as diverse as python programming and ethics—I have decided to resume blogging. Over the next year, I hope to write mostly about the confluence of three subject areas:...
