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* Customer spotlight: how doctors and researchers optimize patient outcomes with AI
# Customer spotlight: how doctors and researchers optimize patient outcomes with AI
August 14, 2024
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*This blog is a contribution from our customer , a leading university hospital in Europe. Learn how their team leverages DataRobot to accelerate clinical research with AI.*
As physicians and researchers, we’re constantly working to improve quality of life. To do so, we need a holistic, data-driven approach that helps us understand the full impact of a particular treatment. How does a certain treatment impact patient symptoms? What makes their symptoms better or worse?
At University Medical Centre Mannheim, we’re digging into data to answer these questions. But it’s tough for our small teams to balance research with the critically important treatment of our patients. We don’t learn data science in medical school, but it’s an increasingly essential piece of the healthcare puzzle.
Fortunately, user-friendly  like DataRobot are helping us bridge the gaps between our medical expertise and the data science we need to provide more thoughtful care to our patients.
### **The Benefits of AI in Healthcare: Findings We Can Trust**
What excites me most about AI in healthcare is the potential to uncover new explanations for diseases or breakthrough therapy efficacies that we’re too blind to see using classical statistical methods. Our goal is to uncover new influences on disease progression, predict disease flares, and empower patients to better manage their treatment adherence.
DataRobot gives us exciting new ways to gain insights from our data and augment our team without data scientists.
As clinicians, we can compare and validate models to find those with the highest degree of accuracy. In the Clinical Cooperation Unit – Healthy Skin and Joints, we’ve leveraged AI to evaluate data from a smartphone app, including images and other clinical datasets of anonymized patient data.
Compliance is also critical — from privacy measures around patient information to GDPR regulations that protect and secure sensitive data. When we publish our findings, the most important thing is their reproducibility. That’s why documentation and explainability behind models are so critical. DataRobot makes these normally labor-intensive processes seamless and automatic.
With DataRobot, we trust our findings, knowing that they have been thoroughly  . We have a plethora of statistics to show the level of accuracy, which we also need for publishing results. Because of that, I sleep better at night and our centre can make an even greater contribution to the medical research community.
### **Uncovering Links in Disease Progression**
Another example of AI being used in healthcare: we’ve applied AI to several use cases in our dermatology and rheumatology collaboration.
For a recently published , we used DataRobot to analyze data from clinical research with patients with chronic eczema or psoriasis. The analysis focused on itching, pain, quality of life, and the use of a smartphone monitoring app to track their symptoms. We looked at uncovering new influences on disease progression, trying to predict disease flares or promote patient treatment adherence.
Through our analysis, we learned that nearly 30% of patients see improved quality of life at six months, while another 30% either showed a decline in quality of life or had consistently poor quality of life. Those insights and others will influence treatment decisions. This data is transformative because we can better understand our patients and learn which patients benefit from certain therapies. It informs us on when and how to change patients’ course of treatment if needed.
Now we’re helping other clinics in the medical center uncover insights in their data. With the Department of Internal Medicine, we’ve looked at blood lipids with the goal of predicting heart disease or heart attacks. In just a few weeks/months, we’ve been able to create some pretty accurate models and look forward to publishing our findings in the near future.
### **Using AI to Accelerate Medical Research**
All these findings may have gone undiscovered without DataRobot. Instead, we’ve been able to accelerate research from hours to seconds, even as we continue to see patients and focus on improving their quality of life
AI helps our daily work, and most importantly, it helps patients.
When we first partnered with DataRobot, I told others that this new technology would change the face of the Earth and that they had to learn about it. I’m still saying this today. AI offers enormous benefits to healthcare professionals, and I’m thrilled to see the impact of University Medical Centre Mannheim’s work.
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Victor Olsavszky, MD
Clinician and Postdoctoral Researcher
Victor Olsavszky is a clinician and postdoctoral researcher at the Clinic for Dermatology at the University Medical Centre and Medical Faculty in Mannheim,Germany. His clinical expertise is in dermatological surgery and plaque psoriasis, whilehis research areas are vascular biology and AutoML analysis of medical datasets using DataRobot.
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