E129 Bharat Sharma, Executive Director of Engineering and Data Science at athenahealth

Today's guest is Bharat Sharma, Executive Director of Engineering and Data Science at athenahealth in Boston. Bharat is responsible for leading Machine Learning, Data Platforms and Data Engineering organizations at athenahealth, who partners with hospitals and ambulatory customers to drive clinical and financial results.

athenahealth offer medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, care coordination and population health services. They combine insights from their network of more than 160,000 providers and approximately 117 million patients with deep industry knowledge and perform administrative work at scale.

In the show, Bharat will discuss:

The benefits of applying AI and Machine Learning at athenahealth,

Interesting projects they are working on,

Using Data Science and Machine Learning to improve the user experience,

Challenges he overcame when scaling the team,

How to build a successful Data Science team,

Advice to those looking to kickstart their Data Science career,

& What excites him for the future of AI in Healthcare