CHAPTER 22

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

TUSHAR MEHROTRA

Over the past year, clinical quality leaders of Northern Health System, an integrated delivery network, noticed an increase in in-patient admission rates, particularly among those with chronic renal failure. The health system’s clinical leaders arranged a meeting with the nephrology group to investigate this issue. The lead nephrologist, Dr. Johnson, had recently attended a training series led by the health system’s TD team, in which they discussed the analytics team’s ability to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to guide clinical decisions and predict patient outcomes. Dr. Johnson suggested that her team work with Northern’s clinical and analytics leaders to leverage ...

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