High Dimensional Health Data
Podcast Description
A podcast for the people building healthcare's data and AI future.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of healthcare data, AI integration, and the future of health technology, with episodes discussing topics such as the use of real-world data to enhance clinical trials, challenges in linking trial data to real-world applications, and the impact of large language models on data structuring, as showcased in episodes featuring guests like Vera Mucaj.
A podcast for the people building healthcare’s data and AI future.
EP 03: Mara Alexeev on Messy Clinical Data, the Limit of EHRs, and the Future of Clinical Informatics
In this episode, we chat with Mara Alexeev, a pediatrician-turned-clinical informaticist with a knack for turning medical chaos into clean, usable data. We talk EHR chaos, learning R on maternity leave, and why smelling liver failure is a real diagnostic skill.
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Meet Mara
(04:00) Becoming chief after attending
(06:00) The broken ritual of rounding
(09:00) Fixing cancer workflows with templates
(12:00) Building rogue order sets at Kaiser
(16:00) Learning R during maternity leave
(20:00) ”I am the data process”
(24:00) When a black box warning hits
(30:00) Why EHR ≠ the patient
(33:00) Diagnosing disease by smell
(40:00) Over-measuring what doesn’t matter
(46:00) The future: GLP-1s & off-the-shelf care
(52:00) The dirty secrets of health data
(56:00) Mara’s dream: Data Talk for real-world messes
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🎙️ About High Dimensional Health Data (HD²) HD² is the podcast for people building healthcare's data and AI future. Hosted by Aaron and Phil, HD² explores the intersection of healthcare, data, and AI, and focuses on conversations with builders and practitioners.
Hosts
Phil Ballentine – Sr Director, Data Engineering at Atropos Health
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-ballentine/
Aaron Neiderhiser – Co-Founder and CEO at Tuva Health
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronneiderhiser/
Guests
Mara Alexeev – Clinical Informatician and Pediatrician
🔗https://www.linkedin.com/in/maraalexeev/
Interested in working together or coming on the podcast as a guest? Email us at [email protected]
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