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From predictive to interpretable models

Posted by Volv Global on Jul 23, 2019 10:54:03 AM

By Christopher Rudolf, Founder and CEO at Volv Global

Quantifying Predictive Power of Features in Electronic Health Record Models – the Volv inTrigue way

When we work on complex prediction models with our inTrigue methodology, we are often asked to help clinicians and others to interpret these models by listing the patient features (attributes) which are used by the model to form its predictions.

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Topics: AI, Medicine, MedTech

Speaker spotlight: General Electric’s GM of Women’s Health Ultrasound shares his biggest AI fear

Posted by GE Healthcare on Jul 16, 2019 2:40:54 PM

In 8 weeks’ time, Intelligent Health (11th-12th September), the world’s largest CPD accredited summit dedicated to AI in healthcare is descending on Basel, Switzerland.

 

To give you a taster of what's to come, meet Mr Roland Rott, Global GM of Women’s Health Ultrasound for GE Healthcare who joins our 2019 line up!


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Topics: AI, Medicine, MedTech

Finding Patients for Rare Diseases: Accurate insight into rare diseases and targeted medicines enhanced by AI

Posted by Volv Global on Jul 9, 2019 3:13:38 PM

By Christopher Rudolf, Founder and CEO at Volv Global

 

The Case Study Problem

 

This case study derives from an ongoing Volv engagement, which started in July 2017. A pharmaceutical company approached Volv Global to develop a prediction model to identify additional patients suffering from the rare disease treatable by its specialist medicine.

 

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Topics: AI, Medicine, MedTech

Refocusing Market Access for Difficult to diagnose diseases

Posted by Volv Global on Jun 26, 2019 12:09:51 PM

By Christopher Rudolf, Founder and CEO at Volv Global

 

Redefining your strategy using machine learning with Volv inTrigue

In this series of conversations with Volv leaders, I have been talking with Dr Mike Tremblay, Volv’s Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, about what differentiates the company in terms of value delivery into markets for our customers. I hope that this is of interest to those of you working with difficult to diagnose diseases and rare diseases in your daily activities.

 

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Topics: AI, Medicine, MedTech

Where can big tech companies make the biggest impact on healthcare? Ask Dr. Toby Cosgrove

Posted by Intelligent Health on Jun 21, 2019 2:14:35 PM

Where can big tech companies make the biggest impact on healthcare?

 

That’s what Dr. Toby Cosgrove, Executive Advisor to Google Cloud and Former President & CEO of the Cleveland Clinic will be answering at Intelligent Health 2019 in Switzerland this September.

 

Cosgrove, who currently serves as an Executive Adviser to the Cleveland Clinic, is helping Google Cloud to achieve what is known in healthcare circles as the ‘quadruple aim’, an effort to improve patient experience, boost population health and reduce the cost of healthcare while also creating a better work experience for clinicians and staff.

 
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Topics: AI, HealthTech

How to estimate the age of your brain with MRI data - A practical guide for applying machine learning in healthcare

Posted by Simon Jégou, Data Scientist @ Owkin on Jun 12, 2019 1:00:09 PM

Healthcare is an industry that raises the highest hopes regarding the potential benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Physicians and medical researchers will not become programmers or data scientists overnight, nor will they be replaced by them, but they will need an understanding of what AI actually is and how it works. Similarly, data scientists will need to collaborate closely with doctors to focus on relevant medical questions and understand patients behind the data.


 
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Topics: AI, HealthTech