Protecting vital public health programs with AI and Knowledge Graphs Health and social services are complex domains that have a direct impact on people's lives and where vast amounts of money are spent globally. When funding intended for public health programs is lost to Fraud Waste and Abuse, vulnerable citizens are ultimately the victims. In challenging times, ensuring financial integrity and fairer distribution of services by reducing disparities are among the top priorities for healthcare systems. In this talk, Vanessa Lopez provides a perspective from her journey in adopting research in Knowledge Graphs and AI to address significant societal problems in the healthcare industry. In particular, Knowledge Graphs emerged as a unifying technology that facilitates bringing diverse data sources together to unlock new knowledge and empower professionals to reduce healthcare disparities. Through a combination of natural language understanding, deep learning, and knowledge representation for modelling human-expertise and reasoning, we are investigating unique functionalities to automatically extract actionable knowledge from large text policy documents. We identify medical claims that infringe policy, either intentionally (fraudulent) or unintentionally (e.g., providing unnecessary services or inconsistent with accepted medical practices). We aim to understand the social program levers that drive positive health. --- Vanessa Lopez: Research Scientist and Manager, AI for Health and Social Care, IBM Research - Ireland Vanessa Lopez is a researcher scientist at IBM Research Ireland since 2012 and manager of the AI for Health and Social Care team. Her research combines knowledge representation, semantics, natural language and learning technologies to create applications to support healthcare professionals improve the delivery of care for the most vulnerable, reduce healthcare disparities and protect the integrity of vital public health programs, this work is currently shortlisted for 2020 US-Ireland Innovation award from the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. -- Welcome to Connected Data London's #ThrowbackThursday Every Thursday at 3pm GMT, we are releasing gems from our vault on #YouTube. Tune in and learn from leaders and innovators; subscribe to our channel and watch premieres as they are released! --- Connected Data London 2024 has been announced! December 11-13, Convene Houndsditch 133, London If you liked this video, check #CDL24 for more Presentations, Keynotes, Masterclasses, and Workshops on cutting-edge topics from industry leaders and innovators: #KnowledgeGraphs #DataScience #AI #GraphDB #Analytics #SemTech #EmergingTech #ThrowbackThursday https://lnkd.in/dTPuC3pm
