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COUNTRY FOCUS: HONG KONG
The Hospital Authority has also launched its Antibiotics Stewardship Programme to monitor individual patients’ antibiotic prescription usage. A new data platform called AIDA( AI and Data Analytics Platform) has been built to support different data-driven business cases and AI model development using data stored on Cloudera.
Building towards the future of medicine effective method of patient treatment and help extend some of the world’ s longest lifespans even further.
“ Without data, you cannot know how a situation appears in local hospitals. Nowadays, AI can do it in the clinical process and AI is an area we are focused on now,” said Ho. p
As the Hospital Authority continues to serve its millions of patients annually, it considers the best approach for incorporating real-time patient data over the next few years. It is keen to leverage Cloudera’ s real-time and streaming capabilities as part of the platform.
Once implemented, the information can be used to develop more real-time dashboards and data-driven business cases. The Hospital Authority plans to train AI models further to identify X-rays and brain CT scans to alert doctors if something is abnormal.
Using patient data in conjunction with AI-generated smart recommendations, the Hospital Authority aims to ensure that the hospitals it oversees can suggest the most
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