From Silos to Synergy: Linking Dental and Medical DAta to Advance Precision Oral Health

About this Class

Dr. Jay Patel is a clinician-scientist uniquely trained in both dentistry and informatics/computer science. As the Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Informatics, he leads efforts to reuse and integrate real-world data including linked medical-dental electronic health records (EHRs/EDRs) and social determinants of health (SDOH) to develop clinical decision support systems that enable early diagnosis, prediction, and prevention of disease. Dr. Patel has engineered AI-based algorithms that connect disparate clinical records and developed more than 40 natural language processing pipelines to extract diagnostic and phenotypic information from free-text clinical notes. Moreover, he has developed algorithms that can predict diagnoses using metadata. These efforts exemplify “clever ways to reuse data,” aligning directly with the mission of the NIH Data Sharing and Reuse Seminar Series to showcase innovative uses of existing datasets.