Duke Health, a world-renowned academic medical center, and SAS, a global leader in analytics, have officially signed a letter of intent to collaborate and support focused initiatives. in improving health equity and optimizing health outcomes.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
When combining SAS analytics, including analytics in SAS Health and the company’s artificial intelligence scalability, with Duke Health’s heuristic testing and validating predictive models with health data scientists, researchers and clinicians, partners hoping to address the issue of health equity.
Jeffrey Ferranti, senior vice president and chief digital officer, Duke Health, said: “At Duke Health, our vision for enhancing patient care is to deliver healthcare. healthy for tomorrow today.
“With decades of experience developing analytical solutions that lead to bold discoveries and drive progress, SAS is an ideal partner to work together on our mission to advance health.”
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Duke launched a Health AI Partnership with the Mayo Clinic and UC Berkeley to help deploy AI software more securely, more efficiently, and hone capabilities in healthcare delivery.
Also part of the Health AI Alliance, which released the Trusted AI Implementation Guidance and Assurance Blueprint last week, Duke and others convened to set up the safety rails. AI defense to maintain health equality and equity in AI.
ON PROFILE
“The need to transform healthcare is more urgent than ever, and SAS wants to be at the forefront of this evolution by increasing patient access to technologically advanced care and ultimately, improving people’s health,” Gail Stephens, vice president of healthcare and life sciences at SAS, said in the statement.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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Ferric Fang, Ning Rosenthal and Sarah Warner will provide more details at HIMSS23 session “The Power of Real World Data in Driving Healthcare Decision Making.” Scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, 1:30pm-2:30pm CT at South Building, 5th Floor, room S503.
