“Intelligent automation is quickly changing the landscape of healthcare, medical research, and health services by enabling the automatic classification, extraction, and enrichment of information. This is helping agencies provide a better experience for patients, cutting back on costs, and reducing turnaround time, according to Federal health experts at a FedInsider virtual event Oct. 28.”
“According to Dr. Niels Olson, Chief Medical Officer for the Defense Innovation Unit, machine learning (ML) and AI are already impacting public sector healthcare by making agencies more efficient through the use of intelligent automation.”
“’We’ve seen the use of intelligence automation to identify datasets needed to make important decisions regarding research and even public health services. Or the use of computer vision capabilities for radiology to identify abnormal chest x-rays,’ Olson said. ‘These standardized processes can improve patient care and the development of clinical trials.'”
“Therefore, he added, it is essential to continue automation efforts to improve services, making them more efficient…” Read the full article here.
Source: Federal Health Experts on Intelligent Automation in Healthcare – By Lisbeth Perez, October 29, 2021. MeriTalk.
