Navigating Data Constraints in the Highly-Regulated Healthcare Industry (Derrick Higgins, Head of Enterprise Data Science & AI, Blue Cross and Blue Shield)

<p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">Data scientists in the healthcare industry face some especially tough challenges. Not only do they have to contend with complex regulatory landscapes impacting the data they can work with, but they’re also constrained by some less than modern processes. </span><br></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">75% of medical communication is still delivered by fax. And that’s just one example.</span><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/derrick-higgins/" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(17,85,204);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;"><ins>Derrick Higgins</ins></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">, Head of Enterprise Data Science &amp; AI at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, talks to us about the processes his team has put in place to overcome these unique challenges.</span><br></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">In this episode, we cover:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">The challenges of working in a highly-regulated industry</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">Implementing a continuous code review process</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">Where IT intersects with the data science life cycle</span><br></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;"><em>Tune in on </em></span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-science-leaders/id1564587119" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(17,85,204);background-color