
AI in health care

Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation
What if data could help predict a patient’s prognosis, streamline hospital operations, or optimize human resources in medicine? A book fresh off the shelves, “The Analytics Edge in Healthcare,” shows that this is already happening, and demonstrates how to scale it. Authored by Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT’s vice provost for open learning, along with two of Bertsimas’…

Can deep learning transform heart failure prevention?
The ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle once concluded that the human heart is tri-chambered and that it was the single most important organ in the entire body, governing motion, sensation, and thought. Today, we know that the human heart actually has four chambers and that the brain largely controls motion, sensation, and thought. But…