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Vice President, Penn Quarter Partners

Last week, i’m excited to say, I completed the Artificial Intelligence in Health Care program at MIT Sloan School of Management. I learned a ton, was out over my skis in many of the assignments, and was introduced to some truly inspiring individuals. In the final assignment, I was asked to apply the AI decision framework we learned throughout the course for a specific use case in health care. My use case was “The Role of Machine Learning in Enhancing Patient Care and Reducing Administrative Burden With Utilization Management Policies”. If you are bored enough to keep reading (bless you), here are some of my initial takeaways: 1. A successful AI model in this use case would need to be limited to a narrow network due to the expansive amount of variable data and interoperability policies currently in place. 2. True stakeholder input would be needed throughout the process of AI model development and must include patients, providers, and payers at every level. 3. Explainability (understanding how the AI model arrived at its conclusion) of this AI model is paramount in development, as certain stakeholder motivations could incentivize a more complex machine learning model that could obscure transparency. 4. Policy making in machine learning in the health care delivery space must start with the ultimate goal of patient-centricity and demand transparency at every level. Overall, I’m encouraged and excited about what the future may hold in regard to health care delivery and machine learning, but policies must be put in place to ensure patient protections as we walk the fine line of encouraging innovation and creating safe guards for our future.

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