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Apr 2020
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Keeping ourselves honest when we work wi...

Ben Jaffe And Katie Malone
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The abundance of data in healthcare, and the value we could capture from structuring and analyzing that data, is a huge opportunity. It also presents huge challenges. One of the biggest challenges is how, exactly, to do that structuring and analysis—data scientists working with this data have hundreds or thousands of small, and sometimes large, decisions to ... Show More
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