According to Dr. Anthony Chang, chief intelligence and innovation officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, Calif., 80-90 percent of all healthcare data in existence was generated in the last 2-3 years, and 90 percent of that data is unstructured.
Enter artificial intelligence to help make sense of it all, Chang said Wednesday in Chicago at the third-annual National Healthcare Innovation Summit, an event now put on by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He was there with an IBM representative to demonstrate the quickly maturing IBM Watson, which has officially had a health division since just April.
These tweets tell the story.
IBM Watson speaker: "If you've seen a Watson briefing but it was a year ago, erase it – it's changing that fast" #aim2innovate
— Dave deBronkart (@ePatientDave) June 17, 2015
Watson: "scale human expertise", and enhance & accelerate it. #Aim2Innovate pic.twitter.com/kVBFVdjOnB
— Dave deBronkart (@ePatientDave) June 17, 2015
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
How much data is generated per human life? #ibm #watson #aim2innovate pic.twitter.com/iExFNa8ssJ
— Aaron Clifford (@_aaronc) June 17, 2015
That’s a lot of data. How will AI be deployed to manage it?
HC Innovation per @AChang007
Genomics
Drones/Robotics
Nanotechnology
3D printing/Regenerative medicine
All supported by AI #Aim2Innovate— Lyle Berkowitz, MD (@DrLyleMD) June 17, 2015
What will meaningful A.I. look like?
1. Tech Invisibility
2. Commoditization
3. Tactful use
4. Greater focus on healing#Aim2Innovate— HIMSS (@HIMSS) June 17, 2015
It’s only going to get more complicated.
Wait until we can truly capture and record brain activity over a lifetime… #aim2innovate https://t.co/qWa31lxgJD
— Paulo Machado (@pjmachado) June 17, 2015
The endgame should be better care, Chang said.
#Healthcare #ArtificialIntelligence to be invisible & omnipresent; give docs chance to be in touch with pts again @AChang007 #Aim2Innovate
— Christine VanDeWege, M.Div. (@ChristineVanDW) June 17, 2015
This well-know patient advocate/engaged patient sure hopes so.
Q&A: who decides what info Watson considers reliable? Watson goes even deeper, considering the *patient's* desired outcome(!) #aim2innovate
— Dave deBronkart (@ePatientDave) June 17, 2015
So what should health IT professionals do to prepare?
Get to know R programming language for data analysis -Dr Chang @JohnsHopkinsSPH has a MOOC w/@coursera https://t.co/2bCLIVuwbp #Aim2Innovate
— Kelly McCormick (@kmccormick) June 17, 2015
So, get ready.
We have the most exciting 25 years ahead of us in medicine. – Dr. Chang – #aim2Innovate
— Aaron Clifford (@_aaronc) June 17, 2015
Photo: Twitter user HIMSS
