Use of AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/31 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Amy Landry (@amyinmaine) from HBI Solutions (@HBI_Solutions) on the topic of “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare”. Will doctors and nurses be replaced by robots? While this is unlikely, the use of artificial intelligence is increasingly changing the way in which they deliver care. Up until just a few years ago the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare was rare, confined mostly to research and exploratory pilot programs. But today, AI is in commercial use by an increasing number of organization, and expected to grow exponentially in the years to come. Anyone who visited the tradeshow floor at the HIMSS annual conference this past month probably walked by hundreds of vendors offering some kind of AI related product. Many were described as predictive analytics, cognitive computing, and/or machine learning based. Why so many? Foremost, it’s become easier and cheaper for healthcare organizations to collect and store vast amounts of health information. And this has led to the need to use machines to help query and make sense of what we now call ‘Big Data’, and put it to good use for patient care. Join us for a discussion about AI in healthcare and one of its major subsets, machine learning.  We’ll discuss some of its most common uses in healthcare today, impact on care del...
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