The Data Scientist applies strong expertise in machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval to design, prototype, and build next generation advanced analytics engine and services. They collaborate with translators to define technical problem statement and hypothesis to test and develops efficient and accurate analytical models that mimic business decisions.

Virta is the first company with a clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type-2 diabetes without the use of medications or surgery. Our innovations in nutritional biochemistry, data science and digital tools combined with our clinical expertise are shifting the diabetes treatment paradigm from management to reversal. Our mission: reverse type 2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025. As a full stack health care company of physicians, engineers, marketers and more under one roof, Virta collects comprehensive data on our patients' experience. The Applied AI team leverages this data to build the next generation of health care for chronic diseases.

Virta Health is on a mission to transform diabetes care and reverse the type 2 diabetes epidemic. Current treatment approaches aren't working--over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse type 2 diabetes through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and live diabetes-free. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes in 100M people by 2025.

An article in Newsweek magazine says, "Artificial intelligence will cure America's sick health care system" using data and automation to "drive down the costs of health care while increasing effectiveness." A company called Virta Health has come up with a smartphone app that is like "a live-in doctor and diabetes coach." The patient population consisted of 238 morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes; 90 percent were taking one or more diabetes medications, and 80 percent had hemoglobin A1c levels 6.5 percent. We are going to need a better study with randomized patients and a much longer follow-up period before we can say artificial intelligence is going to "cure America"s sick health care system."

An article in Newsweek magazine says, "Artificial intelligence will cure America's sick health care system" using data and automation to "drive down the costs of health care while increasing effectiveness." A company called Virta Health has come up with a smartphone app that is like "a live-in doctor and diabetes coach." The patient population consisted of 238 morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes; 90 percent were taking one or more diabetes medications, and 80 percent had hemoglobin A1c levels 6.5 percent. We are going to need a better study with randomized patients and a much longer follow-up period before we can say artificial intelligence is going to "cure America"s sick health care system."

For decades, technology has relentlessly made phones, laptops, apps and entire industries cheaper and better--while health care has stubbornly loitered in an alternate universe where tech makes everything more expensive and more complex. Now startups are applying artificial intelligence (AI), floods of data and automation in ways that promise to dramatically drive down the costs of health care while increasing effectiveness. If this profound trend plays out, within five to 10 years, Congress won't have to fight about the exploding costs of Medicaid and insurance. Instead, it might battle over what to do with a massive windfall. Today's debate over the repeal of Obamacare would come to seem as backward as a discussion about the merits of leeching. One proof point is in the maelstrom of activity around diabetes, the most expensive disease in the world.