| | November 20178UTLOOK Healthcare Tech IN MY OPINIONThe Future of Healthcare in Sync with Digital TransformationBy Ken Lawonn, SVP & CIO, Sharp HealthcareAs the continuously changing IT has come to have a progressive impact on the healthcare industry, Sharp HealthCare is on the forefront of incorporating the best technological solutions to improve healthcare. Driven by the mission to improve the health of everyone they serve, Sharp HealthCare is looking forward to explore advanced data analytics, machine learning, telemedicine, and mobile applications to optimizing healthcare to its maximum.The Impact of Machine Learning in Predicting Medical Events I am quite confident about machine learning's ability to accurately predict medical events. We at Sharp HealthCare have already launched a pilot project on these lines by adopting open source technologies like Hadoop and engaging with data scientists from third party organizations. We implemented the technology to evaluate data related to cases where rapid response teams have been deployed to see if there can be any correlation drawn that would allow us to predict the events thirty to sixty minutes before the actual occurring of the event. To our happiness, the model was able to make positive identification for over eighty percent of the cases. We are now looking forward to implementing the model in the production environment. Another example on these lines is our partnership with Cerner. Using our EMR data, Cerner was successfully able to run algorithms on the data to accurately predict the onset of specific condition like Sepsis. All these positive results certainly make me think highly of the application of machine learning and advanced data analytics in healthcare.Ken Lawonn
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