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Will AI-Enabled EHRs worsen Cascades-of-Care?

Will AI-Enabled EHRs worsen Cascades-of-Care?

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

The paper Cascades of Care After Incidental Findings in a US National Survey of Physicians is an important read for anyone who believes artificial intelligence is going to lower healthcare costs. A “Cascade-of-Care” is a medical workup that expands...

Does De-identification of EHR Data Give Researchers “Carte Blanche” Data Usage?

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...

A Lesson in Health Data Ownership

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...

How to Understand How “Big Health” Approaches AI and Big Data

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...

Data, AI, and the Future Companies of Healthcare

by Matthew Rehrl MD | Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Facebook, Google

Facebook. Google. IBM. Microsoft. Apple. Amazon. Physicians:  Start getting your digital resume together and start looking at purchasing a skateboard, because in the next few years chances are high that many of you are going to be working for one of these companies. ...

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...
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