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Professor Ophir Frider
Georgetown University

Digitized Health

Abstract
Computing in general, and the AI revolution specifically, continues to change the landscape of nearly all domains, medicine included. For instance, patient interactions can be simplified by personalized bots, potential mental health concerns can be detected early through opt-in monitoring agents, and treatment efficacy can be predicted via data mining applications. These are just some examples where computing is reshaping medical practice. Specifically, describing some patented, licensed, and/or proprietary technology, we illustrate a patient-centered, digital front door for multiple patient interaction paradigms. We then highlight an intelligent agent that identifies behavioral deviancy, an early warning for potential mental health concerns. We continue with intelligent agent technology, but this time, to screen for covid-19 via the use of surrogates. Finally, we introduce a graph-kernel based approach for predictive prescription efficacy. We conclude with some observations. This is a multi-disciplinary talk aimed at a general audience.

Biography
Ophir Frieder focuses on scalable information processing systems with particular emphasis on health informatics. An inductee of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and a Member of both Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, he is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IEEE, and NAI, and an Inaugural Member of the ACM SIGIR Academy. He is a member of both the computer science faculty at Georgetown University and the biostatistics, bioinformatics and biomathematics faculty at the Georgetown University Medical Center. He is also Chief Scientific Officer at Invaryant, Inc.

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