Ngan MacDonald - Opening Opportunities by Liberating Healthcare Data

12/20/22 • 34 min

The conversation this week is with Ngan MacDonald. Ngan is the chief of data operations at the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, where she is bridging computational methods with human experience to advance medical science and improve human health. Nana's, a 2022 cohort candidate for the Women In Bio 3/8 Initiative, named for the March 8, International Women's Day where her team seeks to increase startup board leadership for women in Chicago's Life Sciences. Finally, if that isn't keeping her busy enough, she is a healthcare senior advisor and McCormick BI

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Ngan MacDonald 0:00

A lot of people when they talk about AI, they talk about artificial intelligence. And I think like in healthcare, we're just not ready to go there. There's just too much data, too much information. And it's, it's very disparate, you're not very well understood. You know, when you have a problem that's difficult to understand it's complex. The data underneath it is in many ways deficient, then I don't think that artificial intelligence can really solve that problem. B