E52 Sanji Fernando, SVP of AI and Analytics Platforms at Optum

Today's guest is Sanji Fernando, SVP of Artificial
Intelligence and Analytics Platforms at Optum. Part of the
UnitedHealthGroup, Optum is powering modern health care by
connecting and serving the whole health system across 150
countries. They combine cutting-edge technology, the world’s
largest health care database and vast expertise to improve health
care delivery, quality and efficiency. They are on a mission to
help people live healthier lives and to help make the health
system work better for everyone.


Sanji is responsible for leading the AI & Platforms team for
Optum Enterprise Analytics in Massachusetts. His team develops AI
solutions that predict disease progression, classify medical
charts to support risk adjustment and models that recommend the
next best action in care, as well as developing the E2E platform
for analytics and AI development for OEA. Sanji also leads the
education and community building for best practice and use of
platforms tools for analytics professionals and data scientists.


In the episode,  Sanji will discuss:


The great work they do at Optum,


How to get the data fit for purpose,


Understanding the business problem you are looking to
solve,


The challenges of working with Healthcare data,


The importance of monitoring the model development process,


and bringing Machine Learning
models into production