SDO 003 - Navigating the Complexity of Healthcare - Ben Doremus
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What are your thoughts on healthcare data? Why is healthcare so slow in adopting AI and precision medicine within the US? There are a multitude of reasons— policy, high regulation, etc.— but the largest challenge is data quality. In my first data science role, I worked with a registry dataset with 80% of all ophthalmology records in the US, and it was one of the hardest datasets I had ever navigated. This startup had an exceptional data model and an exceptional data engineering team… but we didn’t control the source data. Since US healthcare is so fractured, every hospital (even different departments) has different electronic health record software (e.g. EPIC). Even within the same software, they would have different configurations for collecting data. Scale that up to any data product, and you are going to be slowed down by a myriad of data quality issues. If we want to advance data in healthcare, we have to drastically improve data quality, and it’s why I’m so obsessed with DataOps.
SDO 003 - Navigating the Complexity of Healthcare - Ben Doremus
SDO 003 - Navigating the Complexity of…
SDO 003 - Navigating the Complexity of Healthcare - Ben Doremus
What are your thoughts on healthcare data? Why is healthcare so slow in adopting AI and precision medicine within the US? There are a multitude of reasons— policy, high regulation, etc.— but the largest challenge is data quality. In my first data science role, I worked with a registry dataset with 80% of all ophthalmology records in the US, and it was one of the hardest datasets I had ever navigated. This startup had an exceptional data model and an exceptional data engineering team… but we didn’t control the source data. Since US healthcare is so fractured, every hospital (even different departments) has different electronic health record software (e.g. EPIC). Even within the same software, they would have different configurations for collecting data. Scale that up to any data product, and you are going to be slowed down by a myriad of data quality issues. If we want to advance data in healthcare, we have to drastically improve data quality, and it’s why I’m so obsessed with DataOps.