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The Stack Overflow Podcast

Medical research made understandable with AI

Aug 22, 2023
The podcast discusses how Sorcero uses AI to make medical research more understandable. They explain the challenges faced by Medical Affairs Teams in keeping up with new information. The speakers also explore the use of AI to improve accessibility and communication in healthcare. Additionally, they discuss attribution in Stack Overflow's JNI world and express frustration with filling out forms at doctors' offices.
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Quick takeaways

  • AI can make medical papers up to 700x more readable, helping to bridge the gap in accessibility for the global population.
  • Source Sarrow uses a hybrid approach to AI, combining symbolic and non-symbolic methodologies, and leverages ontologies extensively to ensure accuracy and explainability in processing healthcare data.

Deep dives

Source Sarrow: Using AI to Improve Healthcare

Source Sarrow is an AI analytics and insights company focused on the healthcare life sciences space. They use AI to compute and analyze large volumes of healthcare data more efficiently. Their platform supports better decision making by doctors and helps patient advocacy groups advocate for better treatment. They work with third-party scientific information, clinical trial data, and conversational data to pinpoint how to treat specific patient populations. They take a hybrid approach to AI, using both symbolic and non-symbolic approaches, and leverage human expertise to ensure accuracy and validity of the output. They have a global database and support multiple languages, and they have separate customer-specific databases. They also have complex ETL pipelines to manage their diverse data sources.

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