This episode features Ken Harris, Head of Academic Medicine at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Dr. Jay Schnitzer, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Medical Officer at MITRE. Tune into the second episode in the mini-series around health data. Ken and Jay discuss the use of data to unlock better practices and solve healthcare problems and much more. Get in touch with AWS here Get in touch with MITRE here This episode is sponsored by AWS
Summary
Unlocking Data for Better Patient Outcomes with AWS and MITRE
The Importance of Data in Healthcare
Ken Harris, Head of Academic Medicine at Amazon Web Services (AWS) joins Dr. Jay Schnitzer, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Medical Officer at MITRE to discuss how healthcare providers can unlock data for better patient outcomes. According to Dr. Schnitzer, health data includes clinical information, nutrition status, exercise and fitness status, access to transportation, access to healthy food, and more. The use of data has the potential to solve many unsolved problems in human health and healthcare, and it is up to a coalition of the willing to maximize its utility and impact.
The Importance of Collaboration
A collaboration between academia, private for-profit sector, government, and not-for-profit organizations is needed to solve the problems presented by the pandemic in healthcare. The government is also recognizing the importance of data with new rules coming in place in January. However, there are still unsolved questions regarding ownership and governance of data, financial gaps, and preserving patient privacy.
Focusing on Low Hanging Fruit
The priority should be on identifying the low hanging fruit to start with, rather than trying to tackle all issues at once. It is also essential to recognize that data is no longer a competitive advantage, and collective datasets will outstrip smaller ones in terms of their utility. The focus should be on standardization of curated data.
Working Towards a Global Health Ecosystem
The Global Health Ecosystem is working to solve many unsolved problems in the clinical research and cancer care areas. Their goal is to open-source everything and make it available to the entire community. They have already pilot studies where oncologists are using some of these approaches to expand rapidly over the next few years.
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This episode aired on 12/05/2022 and can be listened here.
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