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	AI Helps Match Patients with Specialists to Improve Health Outcomes H2O.ai

AI Helps Match Patients with Specialists to Improve Health Outcomes

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning Analytics & Modeling - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Human Resources
Use Cases	Chatbots Clinical Image Analysis
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	Finding the right specialist is the first step to receiving the right care. However, consumers are not equipped to navigate the complex and confusing healthcare system. It can be challenging for patients to discover which specialist they should approach for different health situations and, even with a referral from a primary physician, it can still be a long process until they find the right specialist who can accurately treat them while also providing a satisfactory patient experience. Finding the right match between patient and doctor can solve major problems and save lives. Read More
About Customer	ArmadaHealth is a health data science and services company founded to help people access the right physician or expert for them. Their unique solution, QualityCare ConnectSM, combines big data and expert clinical insights which they aim straight at the root cause of healthcare access problems. ArmadaHealth does this by applying sentiment analysis on customer reviews and advanced analysis of experts’ wisdom to understand the consumers, objectively matching to their needs and preferences, preparing them, and delivering timely access to a choice of the most appropriate physicians for their condition. Read More
Solution	H2O Driverless AI is an essential part of reaching Armada Health’s goal of delivering accurate patient-expert matches. By using our automatic machine learning platform, the company is able to build and train a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model to identify the sentiment (positive, negative, neutral) in each customer review. The company looks at three main aspects in each review: treatment outcome, communication, and attitude. These three aspects are critical to finding the best expert that matches customer preferences. Driverless AI is also key to understanding characteristics derived from the data and its NLP features and interpretability features make it easier to analyze sentiment. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning

Analytics & Modeling - Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Human Resources

Use Cases

Chatbots

Clinical Image Analysis

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Finding the right specialist is the first step to receiving the right care. However, consumers are not equipped to navigate the complex and confusing healthcare system. It can be challenging for patients to discover which specialist they should approach for different health situations and, even with a referral from a primary physician, it can still be a long process until they find the right specialist who can accurately treat them while also providing a satisfactory patient experience. Finding the right match between patient and doctor can solve major problems and save lives.

About Customer

ArmadaHealth is a health data science and services company founded to help people access the right physician or expert for them. Their unique solution, QualityCare ConnectSM, combines big data and expert clinical insights which they aim straight at the root cause of healthcare access problems. ArmadaHealth does this by applying sentiment analysis on customer reviews and advanced analysis of experts’ wisdom to understand the consumers, objectively matching to their needs and preferences, preparing them, and delivering timely access to a choice of the most appropriate physicians for their condition.

Solution

H2O Driverless AI is an essential part of reaching Armada Health’s goal of delivering accurate patient-expert matches. By using our automatic machine learning platform, the company is able to build and train a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model to identify the sentiment (positive, negative, neutral) in each customer review. The company looks at three main aspects in each review: treatment outcome, communication, and attitude. These three aspects are critical to finding the best expert that matches customer preferences. Driverless AI is also key to understanding characteristics derived from the data and its NLP features and interpretability features make it easier to analyze sentiment.

Impact #1	H2O.ai empowered ArmadaHealth to achieve its goal of helping people access the right physician or expert for them, acting straight at the root cause of healthcare access problems.

Impact #1

H2O.ai empowered ArmadaHealth to achieve its goal of helping people access the right physician or expert for them, acting straight at the root cause of healthcare access problems.

Benefit #1	Increased Net Promoter scores
Benefit #2	Faster model building and deployment

Benefit #1

Increased Net Promoter scores

Benefit #2

Faster model building and deployment

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AI Helps Match Patients with Specialists to Improve Health Outcomes

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