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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Tina Hernandez-Boussard: How data improves the quality of health care
Description: Tina Hernandez-Boussard is an expert in biomedical informatics who says a new era of understanding the real outcomes of our health care systems is on the horizon thanks to big data, artificial intelligence, and the growing availability of electronic health data. She says that the combination of these tools and data holds the promise of providing never-before-possible insights into whether health procedures truly improve patient quality of life and for which populations.With these tools, she says, her field can peer into the “real-world” details hidden in the medical records, even going so far as to use natu...