IBI Director, Moore, Discusses Reality of Artificial Intelligence
Five Myths of Artificial Intelligence – Discussion by IBI Director, Jason H. Moore, Ph.D. in the Penn Medicine News Blog.
Big Data Makes a Difference at Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine has put in place a comprehensive team to harness the power of big data for improving healthcare. This team includes C. William Hanson III, M.D., chief medical information officer and vice president of Penn Medicine, and Mike Draugelis, chief data scientist at Penn Medicine. Both work closely with faculty in the Institute for […]
New Graduate Course in Biomedical Data Science
Scientists and healthcare providers have always collected and analyzed data and have developed tools for analyzing large data sets. However, with the pervasiveness of monitoring devices, sequencing technologies, and increased adoption of electronic health records, biomedical data is becoming increasingly diverse and complex. Big Data, as this has been called, creates many new challenges, as […]
Penn Team uses Machine Learning and Twitter to Predict Heart Disease Risk
A Penn team, including IBI faculty member Lyle Ungar, won Scientist of the Year at the 2015 Philly Geek Awards. The team demonstrated that Twitter can serve as a dashboard indicator of community psychological health and can predict rates of coronary heart disease. Using natural language processing, sophisticated artificial intelligence techniques that allow computers […]