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Anthem thinks its 'virtuous cycle' with Doc.ai can improve patient care
Last August, major insurer Anthem announced a 12-month trial with startup Doc.ai to see if artificial intelligence could find patterns in people’s experience of allergies. With the trial coming to its scheduled completion, Anthem describes the partnership as a “virtuous cycle” that lets the insurer benefit from data and insights it couldn’t acquire on its own.
“We are sitting on this amazing data set that we are allowed to use for doing process improvements to health care, but which will be very restricted,” said Ted Goldstein, chief artificial intelligence officer for Anthem AI, at Transform 2019.
An AI-driven startup has more leeway than a traditional medical company would. “But a startup company, of course, can give the apps out to the world and collect data ... they can develop hypotheses there, which we can then look and observe to see in our data set,” he said.
Doc.ai aims to let users manage their own health data, which it says is stored locally on users’ devices to prevent hacking. The company has also enrolled interested users in studies on Crohn’s disease and colitis.
“We’re doing this because we have not yet had the opportunity to collect all that real data in one place to try to understand how [it] connects,” Doc.ai cofounder and COO Sam De Brouwer said of her company’s mission.
She said even small amounts of data can help predict a user’s future health. “It is possible already in health care, just based on your age and sex, to give you some level of predictions about health risks and other things,” she said.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 17 2019, @03:59PM (3 children)
It's amazing how everyone in technology has turned against the tech sector's behavior. Even the fucking banks didn't manage to alienate all of their employees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @05:24PM
The "tech sector" as in the actions of the employees, or the "tech sector" as in the managers and investors constantly trying to fuck us out of our privacy and grub a little more profit out of us? Because the latter happens far more often than coming up with technological innovation that actually improves people's lives IMVHO.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday July 17 2019, @06:38PM (1 child)
When you know how the sausage is made...
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 17 2019, @06:41PM
Nah, fucking everyone hates silicon valley except the government and investors now.