Ngan MacDonald - Opening Opportunities by Liberating Healthcare Data
Conversations on Applied AI12/20/22 • 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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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode
- Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine
- WIB-RTP 3.8 Initiative
- McCormick BI
- SDLC
- 3rd Coast AI for Health Bowl
- Health Data Gymnasium
- 21st Century Cures Act
- AHIP
- Invitae DNA health and medical testing
- Follow Ngan MacDonald on Twitter
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Your host,
Justin Grammens
12/20/22 • 34 min
Conversations on Applied AI - Ngan MacDonald - Opening Opportunities by Liberating Healthcare Data
Transcript
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
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