“The true value of the collaboration is in combining the clinical expertise and data from University of Chicago with the machine learning expertise at Google.”

With the recent publication of the first paper to come out of the University of Chicago’s collaboration with Google, our director Sam Volchenboum sat down with The Forefront for a Q&A about the project. Read the interview to learn more about how the researchers leveraged EHR data from the CRDW for the development of new predictive algorithms for heathcare, how patient privacy is protected throughout the process, and where Sam thinks the future of EHR data mining could take us.

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