Data will eat public health: Podcast with Shahir Kassam-Adams
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Shahir Kassam-Adams is one of the most knowledgeable and outspoken people in healthcare. In this episode, Shahir shares his initially unsettling but ultimately reassuring view that "data will eat public health." He opines on interoperability and explains how his company, Datavant has promoted data sharing on COVID-19, leading to a plethora of interesting and potentially useful projects, including one that models the tradeoffs for specific American cities to reopen.Check out the links:
- Shahir’s LinkedIn profile
- David’s predictions about the pandemic
- Datavant
- COVID-19 Research Database
- Reopen Mapping Project
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Seveneves by Neil Stephenson
-----By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group