What is the most impactful application for AI/ML in your industry?

I think anybody in healthcare can actually relate to this. There's a specific applicability for AI in regards to the data taxonomy, specifically the data classification itself. We were actually looking at a few solutions that could actually provide that. Right now, we are in the ideation phase, and I don't really have a broad understanding about how they would execute when the rubber meets the road. But I feel within that space there definitely is applicability. The solutions could actually work depending on how effective the product itself is. But one thing we deal with in healthcare, is a lot about the PHI/non-PHI, de-identification, anonymization and also segregating the data into different environments. Within that, one thing we could benefit from, is having a proper data workflow and having some kind of a proxy setup which could automatically parse through the data that's being received, ingested into the systems, and help us place these into respective environments, depending on the nature of the data. Also stripping out the PHI identifiers, for example, releasing that into non PHI. We have compliance obligations, we've got contractual obligations. Having an automated way of doing that is so important. I truly believe there's definitely the application there to actually enable something like that.

We have this branch of tools called cobots. I had this discussion earlier today with a bunch of the guys. We were talking about security during the pandemic and how ideas have changed and on and on. But one of the issues was, in manufacturing, what do you do when you can't have people on a site, because of COVID or another illness, and you have machines that are running a line and you have to have some way of controlling them, and there's only so much runway for RPA to actually work? My answer to that is cobots. Because they're designed to work with humans, they're designed to work with machines. You can have a person blocked off in an office, who's behind a protective wall. And you can literally use the cobot as the middleman communicating, because it will speak both languages. It'll speak human to a certain extent, it'll definitely speak keyboard. It'll also be able to interact in one of the 10 different protocols that are used by PLCs or anything else of that ilk on a shop floor. It becomes your go between, between the human and the line.