South Bend, Ind.-based University of Notre Dame is partnering with IT company Accenture to increase health equity through data analysis.
Accenture is supporting the new Health Equity Data Lab's first project, which aims to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve health disparities that exist at the intersection of medical care and social issues. The lab is located at the university's Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society.
"An understanding of these gaps can illuminate the sources of disparities that can be followed up by collaboratively developing clinical, behavioral, social and/or policy interventions that target these challenges," Nitesh Chawla, PhD, the institute's founding director and the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame, said in a Jan. 4 university news release.