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Rima Arnaout is an assistant professor of cardiology and a member of the University of California San Francisco Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. She has received a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Intercampus Research Award, as well as funding support from the US National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association’s Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine.
Here we argue that now is the time to create smarter healthcare systems in which the best treatment decisions are computationally learned from electronic health record data by deep-learning methodologies.
Kee Yuan Ngiam is the group chief technology officer at National University Health System, Singapore, and assistant professor at the School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the effects of using artificial intelligence in healthcare. He is the 2018 recipient of Singapore’s National Health IT Excellence Award, which recognizes individuals who advanced healthcare through innovation.