Making Good Use of Big Data: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Implications for CER

2020 PCORI Virtual Annual Meeting Breakout Session

Big (health) data, amassed from numerous sources—electronic health records, clinical research studies, claims data, wearables, and many more—has great potential to improve care and drive innovation in patient-centered healthcare research. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are tools that enhance our ability to organize and analyze huge data sets and are increasingly embedded in a wide array of clinical contexts, medical products, apps, and care delivery models. Evaluating the ability of these products and services to generate rigorous comparative effectiveness research (CER) evidence that will be of value to multiple stakeholders presents both opportunities and challenges. In this session, we will draw on the insights from PCORI’s portfolio in discussing these considerations.

Moderator

Jason Gerson, PhD
Senior Program Officer, Science
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Speakers and Stakeholder Partners

James Gray, MD, MS
Professor of Pediatrics 
Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Director of Clinical Informatics 
Children’s Hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Artificial Intelligence in the Neonatal ICU: Families, Clinicians, and Technologists Designing a Better Future

Jessica Franklin, PhD
Associate Professor and Biostatistician 
Harvard Medical School Biostatistician 
Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Division
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Methods for Improving Confounding Control in Comparative Effectiveness Research Using Electronic Healthcare Databases

Discussants

Mona Siddiqui, MD, MPH, MSE
Senior Vice President 
Enterprise Clinical Strategy and Quality Humana

Joanna Celenza, MA, MBA
March of Dimes/ Intensive Care Nursery
Family Support Specialist
Children’s Hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Bridget Davern
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Family Support Specialist
M Health
Fairview University of Minnesota
Masonic Children’s Hospital

Katherine Jackstadt, MS
Program Officer, Office of the Executive Director
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Natalia Lapinskaya, MS
Program Associate, Clinical Effectiveness & Decision Science
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Bill Lawrence, MD, MS
Senior Clinical Advisor, Engagement and Dissemination
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Gowri Raman, MBBS, MS
Senior Program Officer, Engagement and Dissemination
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

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