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WHAT JOB CHALLENGES DO YOU FACE?
WHAT YOU MIGHT
NOT KNOW ABOUT
The very nature of free-text clinical documents is
that they can have typos, region or specialty-specific
WORKING IN THE
abbreviations or at worst, implied meanings. The latter HEALTH SECTOR
is the hardest to quantify for a computer, which is
more suited to process explicit knowledge rather than
tacit knowledge. Other problems include not being able
to fully analyze data because it was not inputted
correctly or not scanned well and training machine
learning algorithms to correctly pick out specific
diagnoses and procedures.
The NHS is in dire need of AI applications to
streamline services and improve the quality of clinical
care.
Patient privacy and information governance is a very
big and important challenge that I face, in which I
have to be vigilant and ensure that the right person
has the right data at the right time.
SUBJECTS, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS NEEDED
Python and SQL programming. Ideally an education
background (or at least an interest in) Medicine,
Nursing, Biomedical Sciences or similar profession, and
a passion to inform and improve healthcare.
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