6.S897/HST.956 Machine Learning for Healthcare (Spring 2019, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. David Sontag and Prof. Peter Szolovits. This course introduces students to machine learning in healthcare, including the nature of clinical data and the use of machine learning for risk stratification, disease progression modeling, precision medicine, diagnosis, subtype discovery, and improving clinical workflows.
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Lecture 02 - Overview of Clinical Care
Instructor: Prof. Peter Szolovits. Prof. Szolovits gives an overview of clinical care from the past to the present. The main topics covered are the goals of medicine, the tasks of medicine, public health, and paying for health care.