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SubscribeThe Vaccine Credential Initiative is all about patients being able to share proof of their vaccination. The focus of the initiative is giving patients control and maintaining their privacy, which I'm a big advocate of. We’ll be creating smart health cards which will have a QR code that is readable by other systems. So patients can instantly communicate their vaccination status. It’s a really admirable initiative.
There’s an idea in healthcare data science that we can apply deep learning. Basically, in an unsupervised way, just take a big, vast database and say we're going to let the algorithms find the signals. But the risk there is that the signals you're choosing are not going to be consistent over time. That kind of black box approach doesn’t work at all in healthcare.
I’m a patient. How do I want care? Not just a cool digital app, it's the entire process. I think this entire rethinking of what we provide, what they really want, is going be a game changer.
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