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People aren’t equipped to manually sift through massive amounts of data to find patterns. But we thrive when it comes to interpreting those patterns.
doctors aware that their patient might be at risk of opioid abuse before they prescribed the medicine. AI could also analyze other data so the doctors could quickly identify the best treatment before her health deteriorated.
More broadly, AI applied to data, or augmented analytics, can also identify underlying trends in our current opioid crisis and allow officials to react before
a community finds itself in crisis. Using
a publicly available Drug Enforcement Administration dataset, ThoughtSpot’s platform took only seven seconds to analyze 21 billion rows of data and identify 17 outliers, including the providers and distributors that had been overprescribing opioids. Imagine the potential for applying this kind of technology not just to DEA data, but to datasets from any agency —
truly allowing users to find that “needle in a haystack.”
With platforms like ThoughtSpot, even nontechnical users can leverage the power of AI to overcome government’s biggest challenges and, in doing so, create a better America for us all.
Monica McEwen is vice president of public sector at ThoughtSpot.
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