BioVoice News October 2017 Issue 5 Volume 2 | Page 26

face to face ARC LAUREATE FELLOWSHIP FOR SVETHA VENKATESH Recently Prof S Venkatesh, has been awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The Fellowship will provide over $3 M in funding to support a project that aims to determine how pattern recognition can be harnessed to accelerate and expand the capability of experimental optimisation that underpins scientific innovation. How do predictive algorithms work and how can they improve the quality and efficiency in clinical procedures? Predictive algorithms have huge potential to drastically improve hospital efficiency. 26 BioVoiceNews | October 2017 The interesting part is that medical data is not recorded in the text but a code which adds huge value for the machines. The codified data that is ready with information is then put to use by the machines for predictive analysis. The predicative potential of EMR is therefore huge for clinical procedures. You are going to have the patient’s journey across years and they can start asking questions as well as find the answers. For these questions, one earlier had to do experiments