“The Defense Department’s Defense Health Agency is using machine learning to solve its interoperability challenges.”
“The massive, closed health care systems manages 9 million beneficiaries, and data related to medications and medical encounters information is commonly shared.”
“But we have an abundance of data islands where you can’t made connections because of scrubbing and cleaning and not having the right stakeholders at the table,” said Alan Sim, interim chief of the Data Discovery and Research Branch in the DHA Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions Program Management Office.”
“Machine learning has been used to help multiple DOD agencies make sense of large amounts of data, according to Sim told the audience at the April 19 ACT-IAC Health Innovation Day.”
“One area where DHA has made progress is…” Read the full article here.
Source: Smarter use of military health data – By Sara Friedman Apr 23, 2018. GCN.