From Pilots to Production: Boston Children’s John Brownstein on the Next Phase of AI in Healthcare

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Dr. John Brownstein discusses the evolution of AI in healthcare and his contributions to digital health.

Dr. John Brownstein has been on the leading edge of digital health since medical school, where he was drawn to epidemiology because of the opportunity to use data sets for large-scale impact beyond the exam room. He’s been on a hunt for data ever since, shaping a career that has spanned public health, technology, startups, and healthcare innovation. Dr. Brownstein helped develop Google Flu Trends, served as a healthcare advisor to Uber, and launched one of the first data analytics companies i...

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Guest: Dr John Brownstein

Topics covered

• AI in healthcare
• digital health
• epidemiology
• data analytics

Keywords

• Boston Children’s
• Google Flu Trends
• healthcare innovation
• public health
• technology

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Products: Google Flu Trends, data analytics companies

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