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On the other hand, basic statistical techniques with access to a large amount of patient outcomes may find drug side effects faster. It's kind of crazy that thi
by cheriot 4y ago
On the other hand, basic statistical techniques with access to a large amount of patient outcomes may find drug side effects faster. It's kind of crazy that this stuff is not better tracked already. Of course AI is the shiny new thing in the press release.
- nradov 4y agoPerhaps, but previous attempts by researchers to generate clinical insights by merging clinical records from multiple provider organizations and then doing retrospective outcomes analysis have produced disappointing results. Data quality is generally bad, leading to a fundamental garbage in / garbage out problem. There is little consistency between documentation practices across providers, and many findings aren't recorded at all. So in order to get a useful data set, researchers have to do a huge amount of manual data cleansing. Current AI/ML algorithms are incapable of automating much of this work.