Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, and experts at UNC Chapel Hill gathered to discuss its applications in health care, national security, the environment, the arts and more Monday.During one session, university experts explained how AI is being used to analyze large amounts of medical data and research to diagnose patients faster, discover new drugs and develop breakthrough clinical trials. Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking hereMelissa Haendel, director of precision health and translational informatics at UNC Chapel Hill, told the audience the impact is especially large for those experiencing uncommon conditions. “This is really revolutionizing how we think about rare disease diagnostics,” Haendel said. Keep up with the latest news and weather by downloading the WXII app here.In an interview with WXII, she said AI has the ability to significantly expand access to rare disease care.”Patients will travel all over the country right now to try to get that kind of specialty diagnostics,” she said. “And we’re going to try to bring that to the rural clinics and the primary care centers across the state of North Carolina.”Haendel also explained how AI can integrate disparate patient data into a holistic treatment plan.“The electronic health record system that tracks information about your visits to the doctor is a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the things that are out there about you,” she said. “And we can link data about you to your environmental location, where you’ve lived through time, which influences your health. They approximate that 80% of our health outcomes are not related to our genetics, but rather, to our environmental and social variables.”Watch: NOWCAST streaming newscastsThe session also highlighted how AI is transforming the risk management field. Greg Characklis, with the university’s Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, said AI is being used to integrate data about disease outbreaks, natural disasters, cyberattacks and other crises so people in his field can better predict and respond to them. “We have to make ourselves more resilient. We have to put ourselves in a better position to manage them,” he said. “And AI, machine learning, data analytics, techniques can all help us do that.”He said it helps insurers and government officials understand how to price certain crises.“We take data that is associated with the hazard itself. Right? So we could talk about floods, droughts, hurricanes, cyberattacks, and we’ve got to mix that if we’re going to understand the kind of financial impacts that it has with information from the economic and financial systems that govern a lot of our interactions,” he said. “And then we need to also understand the engineered systems that are designed to protect us from these sorts of adverse impacts.”Learn more about the impacts of AI by visiting WXII 12’s YouTube playlist “AI Discovery.” Click here.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Watch NOWCAST TV | Local News | National | News We Love |
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. —
Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, and experts at UNC Chapel Hill gathered to discuss its applications in health care, national security, the environment, the arts and more Monday.
During one session, university experts explained how AI is being used to analyze large amounts of medical data and research to diagnose patients faster, discover new drugs and develop breakthrough clinical trials.
Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here
Melissa Haendel, director of precision health and translational informatics at UNC Chapel Hill, told the audience the impact is especially large for those experiencing uncommon conditions.
“This is really revolutionizing how we think about rare disease diagnostics,” Haendel said.
Keep up with the latest news and weather by downloading the WXII app here.
In an interview with WXII, she said AI has the ability to significantly expand access to rare disease care.
“Patients will travel all over the country right now to try to get that kind of specialty diagnostics,” she said. “And we’re going to try to bring that to the rural clinics and the primary care centers across the state of North Carolina.”
Haendel also explained how AI can integrate disparate patient data into a holistic treatment plan.
“The electronic health record system that tracks information about your visits to the doctor is a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the things that are out there about you,” she said. “And we can link data about you to your environmental location, where you’ve lived through time, which influences your health. They approximate that 80% of our health outcomes are not related to our genetics, but rather, to our environmental and social variables.”
Watch: NOWCAST streaming newscasts
The session also highlighted how AI is transforming the risk management field. Greg Characklis, with the university’s Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, said AI is being used to integrate data about disease outbreaks, natural disasters, cyberattacks and other crises so people in his field can better predict and respond to them.
“We have to make ourselves more resilient. We have to put ourselves in a better position to manage them,” he said. “And AI, machine learning, data analytics, techniques can all help us do that.”
He said it helps insurers and government officials understand how to price certain crises.
“We take data that is associated with the hazard itself. Right? So we could talk about floods, droughts, hurricanes, cyberattacks, and we’ve got to mix that if we’re going to understand the kind of financial impacts that it has with information from the economic and financial systems that govern a lot of our interactions,” he said. “And then we need to also understand the engineered systems that are designed to protect us from these sorts of adverse impacts.”
Learn more about the impacts of AI by visiting WXII 12’s YouTube playlist “AI Discovery.” Click here.
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