How Machine Learning Can Help Prevent Hospitalizations

It doesn't take artificial intelligence to tell you that a preventable hospitalization is not good. A hospital is not a bed-and-breakfast. No one says, "hey, for fun, let's get a hospital room overlooking the parking garage this weekend." A preventable hospitalization is by definition one that could have been prevented. Thus, it costs people, insurance companies, businesses, the government, and society considerable time, effort, and resources that could have been diverted to more productive activities. Plus, a hospitalization may expose a patient to potential badness such as hospital food, being separated from friends and family, medication errors, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Again human intelligence can tell you all this. Where artificial intelligence may be helpful is in reducing such preventable hospitalizations, and Clover Health is an example of a company aiming to do this.

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