Princeton startup, ODH to use AI in assessing patient health risks
The health care industry is just starting to come to grips with the potential of machine learning, ODH President and CEO
A machine-learning program developed by Princeton‘s
ODH‘s role is to use Princeton‘s technology to help insurers and care coordinators scan large amounts of data without specific inputs or instructions. It also can use pattern recognition software to make predictions about future outcomes based on claims data, electronic health records and social determinant factors such as air quality, employment and crime rates.
This program will collect data on social determinants of health and factor it in, said Jarjour. For example, it may spot that there are no supermarkets in a patient‘s area, so the patient is eating fast food all the time. The insurance company can spot that and offer health services that are covered.
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We have work that we‘re trying to do in the machine-learning space around understanding more of the factors involved in what leads to a diagnosis, he continued. So there are examples of simple variables that go into diagnosing conditions. What we want to do is use machine learning to identify other environmental factors and social determinants of health, such as income status, education level, housing, alcohol consumption, substance abuse, etc.
Jarjour said the new tools also can help insurance companies cut down on paperwork.
We have a colleague who used to work in the insurance department, and she said that she would get aggregate data in the form of spreadsheets, and she would go into a room and lay out all of the spreadsheets and then try to follow the data points across 15 spreadsheets, he said. She called it death by spreadsheet. Our service can eliminate that.
Two years ago, ODH engaged in a pilot program with a national insurance company that was so successful the company signed a long-term contract with the insurer, Jarjour said. He added ODH is in talks with other health insurance companies and is close to signing a contract with the
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