UTHealth, Virtusa, Cardinal Health, and AWS Use AI and Machine Learning to Advance Medical Research
October 30 2019 - 7:00AM
Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS:VRTU), a global provider
of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and
solutions that help clients change and disrupt
markets through innovation engineering, today announced it is
collaborating with The University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston (UTHealth), Cardinal Health, and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
to use AI and machine learning techniques to advance medical
research.
This research collaboration is led by UTHealth’s faculty member,
Hulin Wu, PhD, and will initially focus on finding the best
treatment and management strategies for subarachnoid hemorrhage
(SAH) and diabetes based on health care data and computer
simulations.
Virtusa and Cardinal Health will simulate a comprehensive
dataset comprising Electronic Health Records (EHR) representing
more than 30,000 patients. Using vLifeTM, Virtusa’s cloud-based
platform consisting of a comprehensive HIPAA-compliant data lake
with multiple data sources, pre-built APIs, AI, and machine
learning models, researchers hope to uncover hidden trends that can
lead to new treatment strategies and cures for a range of
illnesses.
UTHealth will leverage the simulated data to train and evaluate
machine learning models capable of predicting treatment outcomes
for certain types of illnesses. The data provided through Cardinal
Health’s Proxi patient population simulation requires minimum data
cleaning and preparation and is ready for the application of
machine learning models soon after synthesis.
For the project, more than 20 faculty and students in the
Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at UTHealth School of
Public Health will team with clinicians, epidemiologists,
informaticians, and computer scientists.
“We are developing novel statistical methods and machine
learning approaches to interrogate EHR databases to identify the
best treatment strategies and risk factors for a variety of
diseases using real-world evidence,” said Hulin Wu, PhD, the Betty
Wheless Trotter Professor and chair of the department. “The EHR
data simulated by Virtusa’s platform will help us test and validate
our new predictive models and machine learning algorithms before
applying to the real EHR data."
“Life science companies must address how to seize the upside of
disruption in today’s transformation age,” said Anthony Lange,
senior vice president, Life Sciences, Virtusa. “Future value in
life science is driven by innovation that focuses on outcomes with
a high degree of personalization and is fueled by unlocking the
power of simulated data. At Virtusa, we recognize the critical
importance of collaboration in advancing AI technologies to create
intelligent solutions that make lives better and businesses more
efficient. As data becomes the fuel driving technological and
economic growth, a fundamental challenge is how to quantify the
value of data in algorithmic predictions and decisions. At Virtusa,
we leverage our deep industry and technical expertise to define
solutions that make it easier for organizations to benefit from AI.
We are very excited to be taking such problems head-on along with
UTHealth on our vLifeTM Platform.”
“Cardinal Health is excited to see another effective use for
Proxi, our simulated EHR data platform,” said Jeff Graham,
principal, Big Data Analytics, Cardinal Health. “Through the use of
our technology, organizations like UTHealth can work with simulated
clinical records to accelerate research, augment existing
real-world-evidence, and save time by using clean, ready-to-use
linked data.”
"The availability of Virtusa’s Machine Learning Model Packages
for disease state classifications on AWS Marketplace will assist
our health care data scientist customers to deploy and integrate
machine learning models into their applications quickly,”
said Ananth Balasubramanian, global lead of Healthcare and
Life Sciences, AWS Marketplace, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "We are
excited to have another set of great solutions added to the catalog
to help our customers harness the power of AWS to build
mission-critical applications."
“With all the hype associated with Big Data, it has been
exceptionally satisfying to work in close collaboration with our
partners at Virtusa, Cardinal Health, and now UTHealth
to develop innovative, effective solutions in the AI
technology space that has the potential to impact human health,”
said Daniel H. Robertson, PhD, research fellow and
vice president of digital technology, Indiana Biosciences
Research Institute (IBRI). IBRI serves as a consultant to Virtusa
on issues of molecular biology in engagements, including this one
with UTHealth.
To learn more about Virtusa’s Life Sciences capabilities, please
visit: virtusa.com/practice/life-sciences/
About Virtusa CorporationVirtusa Corporation
(NASDAQ GS: VRTU) is a global provider of digital business
strategy, digital engineering, and information technology (IT)
services and solutions that help clients change, disrupt, and
unlock new value through innovation engineering. Virtusa serves
Global 2000 companies in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance,
Healthcare, Communications, Media, Entertainment, Travel,
Manufacturing, and Technology industries.
Virtusa helps clients grow their business with innovative
products and services that create operational efficiency using
digital labor, future-proof operational and IT platforms, and
rationalization and modernization of IT applications
infrastructure. This is achieved through a unique approach blending
deep contextual expertise, empowered agile teams, and measurably
better engineering to create holistic solutions that drive business
forward at unparalleled velocity enabled by a culture of
cooperative disruption.
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