Anthony Chang on missing data
From Anthony Chang | Data and Machine Learning | Exponential Medicine 2016 · · NextMedHealth
“Unstructured data is our problem in healthcare: even at Stanford oftentimes at least 50% of the data cells are missing when we do a project — missing data is a huge barrier.”
On , Anthony Chang, Cofounder at BAMF Health, spoke about missing data during Anthony Chang | Data and Machine Learning | Exponential Medicine 2016 on NextMedHealth.
About Anthony Chang
Anthony Chang, a practicing pediatric cardiologist and cofounder of Bamf Health, spoke at Exponential Medicine 2016 about the integration of artificial intelligence and data science into healthcare. He described February 14, 2011, the night IBM's supercomputer won on Jeopardy, as the moment he recognized AI's potential and subsequently enrolled in Stanford's data science program. Chang stated that much of what clinicians say at conferences is "not necessarily entirely founded on not just evidence but data," and he advocated for using AI to mine signals from fragmented healthcare data. He mentioned plans to launch an "intelligent clinic" at Children's Hospital Orange County that would use wearable technology for vital signs and machine-learned echocardiograms interpreted alongside cardiologists. Chang characterized AI as "a force and an energy, like electricity, to illuminate the medical world" and said its purpose is "to make us more human." He identified data fragmentation as a key barrier, comparing each hospital's data hoarding to "a little gallon container of rocket fuel" that prevents large-scale AI projects. Chang proposed blockchain technology as a potential solution for securely sharing healthcare data. He also noted the rapid increase in venture capital funding for healthcare AI and raised concerns about insurance companies potentially imposing AI-driven guidance with financial penalties for noncompliance.