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Author: Dr. Ruben Amarasingham
Ruben Amarasingham, MD, MBA, is the Founder and CEO of Pieces, a healthcare AI firm that specializes in clinical decision sciences. He is also the Founder and past president of PCCI, a scientific research institute based in Dallas, Texas, whose focus is clinical trials and biomedical informatics, and gave rise to Pieces. Dr. Amarasingham is a national expert in the design of AI products for healthcare and public health. Prior to his role as CEO of Pieces, he was the Associate Chief of Medicine at Parkland Health & Hospital System, and a professor in the departments of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center, where he also served as the Director of the Biomedical Informatics Program for the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award. Ruben is a past member of the national board of directors of HIMSS.
How Pieces Technologies leverages AWS services to predict patient outcomes
Pieces Technologies, Inc. (Pieces), a healthcare and life sciences startup, is blazing a trail in the predictive AI/ML space. Pieces is a software as a service (SaaS)-based AI platform integrated into a hospital’s electronic health record (EHR). Their mission is to improve care by providing clinical insights along the patient journey. They offer predictions of health events such as projected discharge dates, anticipated clinical and non-clinical barriers to discharge, and risk of readmission, before they occur. Pieces also provides insights to healthcare providers in natural language, and optimizes the overall clarity of the patient’s clinical issues so care teams can work more efficiently.