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Author: James Wiggins
James Wiggins is a Senior Solutions Architect Manager for Global Healthcare at AWS. He is passionate about using technology to help organizations positively impact world health. He also loves spending time with his wife and three children.
Global OHDSI COVID-19 Study-A-Thon Produces Important Insights
What happens when a pandemic cancels your annual scientific meeting? You improvise. The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI, pronounced “odyssey”) community planned to celebrate recent research initiatives and discuss future efforts during the annual European Symposium at Oxford University in late March. COVID-19 had other plans. Opting to flatten the curve, symposium organizers […]
Predict patient health outcomes using OHDSI and machine learning on AWS
Build a machine learning model to predict the likelihood of stroke in a patient with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation In healthcare, patient outcome prediction is a critical step in improving the effectiveness of care delivery while reducing its overall cost. Being able to accurately forecast what will happen next to patients, at scale, is key […]