Delivering Better Care at a Lower Cost – a Case Study of Project Baby Bear at Rady’s Children’s Hospital

My first post as part of my work with http://www.FabricGenomics.com

By Martin Reese & Laura Yecies

The power and cost-effectiveness of AI are calling into question many of our assumptions about healthcare.  The most important dichotomy proving to be false is that providing the latest and most thorough diagnostic technology to optimize clinical outcomes is more expensive.  When we use AI to more comprehensively analyze cases we benefit from Moore’s law rapidly and continuously reducing costs.  By contrast, hospital-based care, especially when in an intensive setting such as the NICU is continuously increasing in cost. It is not surprising that when more extensive testing produces clinically actionable results that actually decrease hospital days we can accomplish the holy grail — better care and less expensive simultaneously…

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