A discussion with Divyes Patel, Director, Innovation, Research, & Development at a large Healthcare company based in Tennessee. During his current tenure, as well as past jobs at UnitedHealth Group and Cigna, he’s focused on using data to make healthcare more efficient and effective.
Divyes talks about how he initially started programming in COBOL, but quickly moved to building reports, and then to analytics. He dives into the complexity and inconsistency of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems data with a memorable sarcastic quote of “If you’ve seen one EMR, you’ve seen one EMR!” He outlines how #LLMs are helping to not only transcribe discussions, but interpret those discussions and prepopulate medical history entry forms. He provides some advice to young students and professional and also outlines how agentic AI will impact analytics roles. Don’t miss his description of how showing business partners a new product energizes him every time!
#analytics #datascience #ai #artificialintelligence #healthcare #insurance #payer
A discussion with Carole Piovesan, Founder of INQ Law and INQ IQ Consulting. She has held past roles with Global Affairs Canada and McCarthy Tétrault.
Carole talks about how she got focused on the legal issues surrounding AI and data, as well as the complexity of the landscape with countries, states, and even cities passing their own laws. She discusses some of the most common issues her clients are raising today, as well as areas she thinks we need laws to catch up the most. She finishes by explaining what led her to found her own firm, how her persistence has been a key to her success, and why she sees decision documentation becoming a huge area for AI laws and governance.
#analytics #datascience #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #laws #governance #risk
A discussion with Nathan Ghadirifard, Director, Chief Data & Analytics Office, WellStar Health System. He has held prior roles at Cleveland Clinic and healthcare consulting firms.
Nathan talks about the rise of operationally focused analytics in healthcare. He also talks about the role that governance plays in the adoption of AI and analytics today. He then dives into the need for diplomacy and complex problem solving in the modern workplace. After encouraging students and early career professionals to become comfortable being uncomfortable, he finishes with some predictions about how AI will automate certain aspects of analytics roles as they exist today.
#analytics #datascience #leadership #machinelearning #ai #artificialintelligence #Wellstar #ClevelandClinic
A discussion with Dwight Specht, Vice President, Digital Transformation & Strategy at Bridgestone Americas, the US division of the global tire and automotive corporation. He has held prior roles at North Highland, I.B.I.S., and ePartners.
He talks about the types of analytical consulting and how they have evolved over the years, as well as how client engagements have changed. He discusses his love for reading and how it keeps him up to date, as well as how he views early career years as focusing on being a craftsman and later years focusing on leading other craftsmen. He also discusses what he's learned since moving to the client side for the first time.
#analytics #datascience #leadership #machinelearning #ai #artificialintelligence #bridgestone #northhighland #ibissoftware #epartners