Keynote: Ari Robicsek, MD

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Chief Medical Officer, Providence St. Joseph Health

"Exponential Curves: Learning How to Do Pandemic Analytics During a Pandemic"

The pandemic has created incredible challenges – and opportunities – for the field of healthcare analytics. As the first US healthcare system to hospitalize a patient with Covid-19, we quickly realized that our existing analytics tools and skillsets weren’t adequate to the tasks required: creating situational awareness, enabling rapid learning, and building predictive models. This is a story about data architecture, natural language processing, geographical information systems and machine learning; it’s also a story about making mistakes and learning from them. And of course, it’s a story about a very nasty virus and what we’ve discovered in the course of caring for 20 thousand infected patients.