Machine Learning

Machine learning (ML) is a specific type of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows systems to learn from data and detect patterns without much human intervention. Instead of being told what to do, computers that use machine learning are shown patterns and data which then allows them to reach their own conclusions.

For the healthcare industry, machine learning is particularly valuable because it can help us make sense of the massive amounts of healthcare data that is generated every day within electronic health records. Using machine learning algorithms in healthcare can help us find patterns and insights that would be impossible for busy clinicians to find manually.