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Personalized Treatments: Is That Possible and What Can Data Science Tell Us?

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Is the Data Scientist in the Background Doing the Real Work?

Kimberly: You're almost in a sense turning every doctor into a clinical trial doctor. We dream of a clinician encounter where there's a patient who's newly diagnosed with hypertension. There is in the electronic health record, a button that can be pushed is this patient safe to try these three active drugs. The data is returned and automated so that a report is generated which pops up in the e-health record. Kimberly: Ken tells you all of the hard work that needs to be done to get to the dream. That is the system that his postdocs and a number of PhD students have been working to develop for us.

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