80% of EHR Data is Unstructured. Or is It?

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, EHR, Natural Language Processing

80%. I run across this number all the time in healthcare articles about the potential use of artificial intelligence within healthcare. It is the percentage of “unstructured” data contained in electronic health records (EHRs) – data which is prime real estate...

My Takeaways From a Recent MIT Artificial Intelligence Course.

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data

I just just finished a 6 week MIT-Sloan course on AI, called:  Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy. It was an excellent course, and it exceeded my expectations.  Here are three of many takeaways for me which stand out: Artificial Intelligence...

Social Media, ROI and a Webinar Bootcamp

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Social Media

ROI.  Return on Investment.  These are the words which can bring Social Media Marketers to their knees.   Look, I know several healthcare organizations which have revenue approaching haf a billion dollars per year, but who only have 2-3 social media people working for...

My Preparation for the Digital Future in Healthcare

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare 3.0, Machine Learning, Social Media

I ran across an interesting quote by Jeff Arnold,  Chairman and  CEO of Sharecare, within the context of what healthcare organization’s need to do to prepare for the future:   “You have to be fluent in healthcare. You have to be fluent in technology, like analytics...

What’s Next in Deep Learning with Electronic Health Records

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, EHR

Here’s an interesting article in Nature  which was published in May 2018 that should be on the radar of any physician interested in Artificial Intelligence: “Scalable and accurate deep learning with electronic health records”  This study, by analyzing the...