Medicine is seeing an explosion of data science tools in clinical practice and in the research space. Many academic centers have created institutions tailored to integrating machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) into medicine, and major associations including the AHA have created funding opportunities and software tools for clinicians interested in harnessing the promise … Read more
In today’s climate, industries often talk about the new buzz word of this era, Big data. In this case, Big data refers to data on the macro scale (mostly unorganized and unstructured). The utilization of Big data has tremendous potential for various industries, healthcare included. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, for example, incorporate big data for their … Read more
Tech in Cardiology On a recent flight from San Francisco, I found myself sitting in a dreaded middle seat. To my left was a programmer typing way in Python, and to my right was an oncologist flipping through a slide set on chemotherapy trials. While this may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, … Read more