New report demonstrates how machine learning will work in healthcare

The folk at Orion Health have been busy following the announcement of its intention to put machine learning to work in its products within a year. It has just released a report, in conjunction with the University of Auckland, which makes clearer how that will work. The Introduction to Machine Learning in Healthcare report is co-authored by Dr Kevin Ross and Dr Kathryn Hemstalk, with an introduction by Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae. Among other things, the report lifts the lid on data that is useful for the practice of precision medicine, and which will become part of an electronic health record and provides an introduction to different types of machine learning models. The report's publication coincides with the official launch of Precision Driven Health at the University of Auckland, which the company described in a statement as'one of the largest data science research initiatives to be undertaken in this country'.