Findings from Technical University Munich (TU Munich) Advance Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence (Use of big data from health insurance for assessment of cardiovascular outcomes): Machine Learning – Artificial Intelligence

2023 MAY 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on artificial intelligence are discussed in a new report. According to news originating from Munich, Germany, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Outcome research that supports guideline recommendations for primary and secondary preventions largely depends on the data obtained from clinical trials or selected hospital populations.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Technical University Munich (TU Munich): “The exponentially growing amount of real-world medical data could enable fundamental improvements in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prediction, prevention, and care. In this review we summarize how data from health insurance claims (HIC) may improve our understanding of current health provision and identify challenges of patient care by implementing the perspective of patients (providing data and contributing to society), physicians (identifying at-risk patients, optimizing diagnosis and therapy), health insurers (preventive education and economic aspects), and policy makers (data-driven legislation). HIC data has the potential to inform relevant aspects of the healthcare systems. Although HIC data inherit limitations, large sample sizes and long-term follow-up provides enormous predictive power. Herein, we highlight the benefits and limitations of HIC data and provide examples from the cardiovascular field, i.e. how HIC data is supporting healthcare, focusing on the demographical and epidemiological differences, pharmacotherapy, healthcare utilization, cost-effectiveness and outcomes of different treatments.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “As an outlook we discuss the potential of using HIC-based big data and modern artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to guide patient education and care, which could lead to the development of a learning healthcare system and support a medically relevant legislation in the future.”

For more information on this research see: Use of big data from health insurance for assessment of cardiovascular outcomes. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023,6. The publisher for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2023.1155404.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Johannes Krefting, Department of Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum Munchen, Technical University Munich (TU Munich), Munich, Germany. Additional authors for this research include Partho Sen, Diana David-Rus, Ulrich Guldener, Johann S. Hawe, Salvatore Cassese, Moritz von Scheidt, Heribert Schunkert.

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