The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action E173 Dr. Marion Cornelia Schwarzler, Head of Decision Science & Advanced Analytics for Medical Affairs at Bayer
Feb 9, 2021
Dr. Marion Cornelia Schwarzler, Head of Decision Science & Advanced Analytics at Bayer and experienced econometrician in health data, discusses applying data science in healthcare. She talks about NLP for clinical text, data privacy and access hurdles, interoperability and semantic challenges, practical patient-reported data issues, team diversity, and scaling from pilots to production.
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Career Move To Combine Math And Medicine
- Marion moved from Austria to Germany to combine her love of mathematics with medicine through econometrics and health research.
- She balanced working at a research institute while doing a PhD, which was the hardest but most rewarding period of her career.
Healthcare Can Leapfrog Other Sectors
- Healthcare can leapfrog other industries by learning from their data science mistakes and accelerating adoption responsibly.
- The field is tricky because mistakes can directly harm patients, so innovation must be careful and rigorous.
Regulation Limits Patient Data Access
- Patient data access is limited by regulation and geographic bias, which restricts representative datasets for research.
- Regulation protects patients but creates persistent data access and interoperability challenges for years to come.