(Forbes) Moshe Bar Siman Tov - Israel has begun leveraging its medical data to create new opportunities in the analysis and optimization of patient treatment. Israel's four HMOs and their affiliated hospitals have for the past two decades used the same electronic medical records (EMR) platform. As a result, a large body of data about patients, conditions, and treatments has been built up over the years. The secondary use of de-identified clinical data will enable researchers to develop new treatments for hundreds of conditions, as well as ascertain more accurate information for their causes. AI systems will be able to seek correlations to discern which treatments are most effective. The writer is Director General of the Israel Ministry of Health.
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