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Shaping the future of software driven business
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Dr. Calum MacRae
Vice-chair of Innovation, Department of Medicine,
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Partners Healthcare;
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Achieving a continuous learning system is a broad goal in the industry to transform
healthcare. However, the inputs and outputs of our health systems are fundamentally
flawed and the traditional process of delivering care only after patients decide to
see a doctor is a workflow that is not patient-centered. We have ended up digitizing
decades old practices and turned health system professionals into data entry clerks
in recent waves of electronic and digital developments. There is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to fully reconstruct health delivery in patient-centric fashion based on
the technological possibilities that now exist in data, AI, and digital realm. Capturing
the right information content, organized around human biology will be necessary to
transform inputs and outputs for such learning systems. With the right data inputs,
algorithmic approaches can be constructed for most disease conditions to provide
continuous care to patients in scalableworkflows that gowell beyond patient-provider
visits. Promising evidence from recent programs suggest that this transformation
could deliver dramatic improvements in clinical outcomes and reduce total medical
expenses, while improving patient satisfaction.
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