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We Need to Open Up the AI Black Box

We Need to Open Up the AI Black Box

Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, and John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. To convince physicians and nurses that deep learning algorithms are worth using in everyday...

Causality in Medicine: Moving Beyond Correlation in Clinical Practice

Causality in Medicine: Moving Beyond Correlation in Clinical Practice

Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, and John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. A growing body of research suggests it's time to abandon outdated ideas about how to identify...

Taking Down the Fences that Divide Us

Taking Down the Fences that Divide Us

Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform and John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. Innovation in healthcare requires new ways to think about interdisciplinary solutions. During the 10...

Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Let Your Freak Flag Fly

John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. If Mary Putnam Jacobi were alive today, she would probably embrace artificial intelligence (AI),...

High-Quality Hospital Care — Minus the Hospital

High-Quality Hospital Care — Minus the Hospital

John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. In a time of COVID, the current care models just can’t remain in place. We need innovative ways to...

Diabetes Meets Machine Learning Part 1

Diabetes Meets Machine Learning Part 1

John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. Of all the disorders that have responded well to artificial intelligence and machine learning,...

The Digital Reconstruction of Health Care

The Digital Reconstruction of Health Care

By John Halamka, MD, and Paul Cerrato, MA Although remote patient monitoring, machine learning, and artificial intelligence hold great promise for care delivery, there is limited high-value, evidence-based research on these issues. Technology will facilitate the...

To Reinvent Clinical Decision Support, Reinvent Data Analytics

To Reinvent Clinical Decision Support, Reinvent Data Analytics

By Paul Cerrato ”The complexity of medicine now exceeds the capacity of the human mind.” It’s still one of the best quotes I’ve seen that explains why physicians and nurses need help making wise clinical decisions. There is just too much information for any one...