Chicago – David Higginson advises hospitals and healthcare systems looking to use machine learning.
“Let’s get started,” he says.
Higginson, Chief Innovation Officer at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, gave a presentation on machine learning at the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition. He explained how machine learning models have helped identify malnourished children and people willing to donate to hospital foundations.
After the session he said: Chief Healthcare Executive® We also provided guidance for healthcare systems looking to leverage machine learning.
“Start by thinking about how you’re going to use it,” says Higginson. “Don’t be fooled into actually building a model.”
“Think about the problem and frame it as a prediction problem,” he said, adding that not all problems can be framed that way.
“But if you find a really good prediction problem, ask the operators who use it every day, ‘Tell me how you use this,’” says Higginson. “And work with them on their workflow and how it will change the way they work.
“And if they can look at it and say, ‘OK, I’m excited about it, I can see how it makes a difference,’ then go and build it. “It gives you more motivation to do it and you know what your goal is. But when you finally achieve it you know it will be used.” ”
