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Opioids, controlled substances, expensive oncology therapeutics and vaccines risk being stolen and sold on the black market. Invistics CEO Tom Knight shares how supply chain visibility and inventory control tools help safeguard them.

Piece Technologies CEO Dr. Ruben Amarasingham and OSF Ventures' Dr. Garrett Vygantas say AI can assist in tasks that will allow physicians to focus more time on the core elements of their work.

DrFirst President Cameron Deemer explains how ML applications can improve safety and efficiency – automating medication history in hospital EHRs and aggregating patient records in consumer apps.

Jason Jones, chief data scientist at Health Catalyst, says augmented intelligence, not artificial intelligence, is especially important when building predictive models that improve, not drive, health disparities.

Social determinants of health analytics services provide data that EHRs don't capture, benefiting not only patients, but also payers, researchers and providers, claims Change Healthcare SVP of Data Solutions Tim Suther.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught invaluable lessons in supply chain management, including the interdependency of every country during times of crisis, says Dr. Verna Yiu, president and CEO of Alberta Health Services.

Jonathan Weiner, professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses some of the data fundamentals that are essential for effective artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.

This week's top stories include NorthShore University HealthSystem garnering accolades for its utilization of analytics technology, Amazon rolling out its Amazon Pharmacy store, and clinicians spending more time on EHRs than patient care.

To free up its physicians, OrthoIndy turned to the Kara artificial intelligence iPhone app, which integrates with its EHR, sending caregivers' spoken words directly into the right places in the record.

In this episode of The Alessi Agenda, Duncan Selbie, former chief executive at Public Health England, discusses how data-driven decision-making improves outcomes in the public health setting.