Advanced Technologies in Clinical Operations: Adoption of Machine Learning in Care Settings

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For this episode, a national thought leader on health technology and software development, Mr. Edward O'Connor shares insights on adoption of machine learning in care delivery.
Edward has over 20 years’ experience as a software developer, enterprise architect, and technology executive – and currently drives special projects in ManTech International’s health division. He is focused on systems of systems engineering (SoSE) practices, human factors engineering, and approaches that bring together clinical, design, engineering, and operational resources to solve multi-disciplinary problems.

Mr. O’Connor served as the Chief Information Officer and lead architect for an ambitious integrated delivery system (IDS) effort in Austin Texas to bring together primary care clinics, the Seton Hospital system, a startup non-profit health-plan, dozens of community service providers, and the Dell Medical School. He also led the independent cloud-migration tiger team and performance testing team for CMS’s Healthcare.gov program and stood up a proof-of-concept for synthetic data creation for large-scale traffic simulation. Edward is currently a subject matter expert advising projects at CMS, the VA, and with the military – in areas ranging from interoperability, technical strategy development, and standing up new capabilities in modeling and simulation.

Although stationary (in Denver, Colorado) for the moment – Edward and his family once dispensed with all possessions that did not fit in an Airstream trailer and a pickup truck – and spent over two years traveling the country while working on technology projects (mostly) full-time.