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Next-Gen Health Care IT
JOIN US: This is a chat-based conversation about advancements in next-generation health-care IT, including new collaboration tools, AI and telemedicine.
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Sanjeev Agrawal
A2: There is a lot of data in EHRs that isn't being used to filter and cluster patients into the right cohorts. For example as a South Asian male my risk for cardiac disease can be assessed a lot better by looking at a like cohort and using historical data to assess specific risk
Sanjeev Agrawal
A2: If Amazon and Netflix can recommend things I'd like (I know it's a very different example) so can my medical record :)
Chris Preimesberger
Q2: How can next-gen health care IT help improve risk assessments for patients and health-care professionals?
Mike Seegel
A2: I find that my clients have the best success in undergoing compliance audits when they have systems that interoperate, providing more control over their environments.
Chris Preimesberger
Good point. Can you elaborate a bit with an example or two?
Mike Seegel
A2: For example, having Crowdstrike next-gen anti-malware feed into Splunk for easy reporting allows for better control. This can provide easy reporting and actionable items.
Mike Seegel
A2: Easy reporting translates into the ability to understand where your risks are, which allows a much better overall risk assessment.
Chris Preimesberger
Thanks for that. Is instant reporting a standard function inside most systems now, or is this just a "nice to have?"
Mike Seegel
A2: Great question! In most modern systems, such as Splunk, report generation is extremely customizable. You can pick what fields you want to include on reports. Most systems allow for alert notifications on your risk tolerance levels.
Chris Preimesberger
Q2 coming right up ...
Chris Preimesberger
Remember, you can answer any question posed here at any time, just use the Q1=A1 convention, so we can keep everything straight!
Chris Preimesberger
Sidebar comment: AI and ML functionality is pervading all types of applications, and it seems that health-care is a hugely important sector for it. We at eWEEK expect to see more and more use cases involving AI and ML in this sector.
Chris Preimesberger
Wow, Sanjeev, that was a pretty complete assessment! Thank you for that
Chris Preimesberger
Repeating: Q1: Where can the use of AI and ML best fit into next-gen health-care IT to enable more positive outcomes?
Mike Seegel
I've seem AI and ML used in my clients to get better control of data. Such as, helping with a patient's next best steps, or discovering additional money from Medicare by finding a patient treated for an illness at another hospital group.
Mike Seegel
Hi Chris! Thanks for having me on today! My name is Mike Seegel, Manager at Schellman and Co. I mostly focus on HITRUST assessments for our clients, but I'm also involved in many other healthcare and compliance audits, such as HIPAA assessments.
Chris Preimesberger
Hi Mike, and thanks for joining us today for what looks to be a very cool and timely discussion!
Chris Preimesberger
Enough prep! Let's get to it Q1:

Q1: Where can the use of AI and ML best fit into next-gen health-care IT to enable more positive outcomes?
Aditya Bansod
.@editingwhiz A1: I'm mostly excited for ML to really help us understand patient's intent in healthcare -- what do they want to achieve out of their HC experience. I think one of the powers of ML is to understand what a patient means not just says to provide equitable care
Sanjeev Agrawal
A1: There are several areas where AI could fits into next-gen healthcare, specifically 5 areas
Sanjeev Agrawal
1. Increasing Access: Providing greater access to high quality care to more patients through resource optimization (similar to load factors in airlines). Simultaneously deliver high utilization of assets, low wait times for patients, and a large number of available slots for pati
Sanjeev Agrawal
2. Lowering costs e.g. claims adjudication, staffing, other back office functions. AI can minimize time spent on routine, administrative tasks, which can take up to 70 percent of a healthcare practitioner’s time.
Sanjeev Agrawal
3. Clinical applications of AI : Diagnostic applications, such as reading imaging scans or pathology reports, are probably one of the most intuitively obvious places where we would expect to see AI getting deployed at scale in the near to medium term.
Sanjeev Agrawal
4. Targeted Precision medicine: for higher efficacy drugs that act on my specific symptoms. There is so much patient specific data that can be used to identify “who am I like” from the thousands who may resemble me
Sanjeev Agrawal
5. New drug regimens
Chris Preimesberger
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