Yubin Park

Founder & CEO, mimilabs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dr. Yubin Park is a healthcare AI entrepreneur who co-founded Accordion Health and Orma Health. He holds a Ph.D. in machine learning from UT Austin and teaches as an adjunct professor at Emory University.

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1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 8 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Yubin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
CMS bundled payments hold hospitals accountable 90 days post-surgery
“So in the early summer of this year, CMS, the largest payer in the nation, proposed a new formal bundled payment for joint replacement. Now hostels are accountable for all the events. All the events during the 90 days after knee and hip replacement surgery.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 2:13 Yubin Park

How they sound: speaking style how? →

232 words/min while actually speaking · 121.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Yubin Park: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,907 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Yubin Park said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Park: Healthcare professionals deeply mistrust the machine learning community
“If you talk to any, ah, any people in the healthcare industry, ah, they have a lot of big, ah, mistrust to the machine learning communities.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 3:57 Yubin Park
Insight
Park: Healthcare requires designing a new ML paradigm from scratch
“It's more about designing a new paradigm in machine learning from scratch.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 11:35 Yubin Park
Insight
Park: Precision medicine is just the tip of the iceberg
“Precision medicine is actually a very, ah, tip of iceberg, which is, ah, actually a much larger stream of, ah, revolution in healthcare, ah, which is called a personalized healthcare.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 1:38 Yubin Park
Insight
Park: Naive ML models fail in healthcare due to patient bias
“Some people may think this is a very simple machine learning problem. Like, okay, so let's grab some data, analyze it, and then build some sort of model to predict their cost and outcomes, and let's just apply in the reality. Without knowing the fact that the …”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 3:24 Yubin Park
Insight
Park: Post-discharge optimization fits poorly into standard ML frameworks
“This problem cannot be easily cast into a classification regression problems. Ah, it's not like a traditional machine learning framework.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 5:55 Yubin Park
Insight
Park: Personalized healthcare extends to benefit plans and financial incentives
“So what I'm saying here is, ah, every axis, all the components in the healthcare can be personalized. It's not just about the treatment and prevention. It's, ah, it's about, like, service bundle. It's about the benefit plan. It's about the financial incentives…”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 9:06 Yubin Park
Insight
Park: Crawling scientific literature can model healthcare counterfactuals
“Actually, you can crawl all the scientific articles about because they already performed the cohort studies, A-B testing, all those things. You can analyze all those Of previous studies. And use those things to make to answer the what if questions to the, for …”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 10:15 Yubin Park
Insight
Park: Traditional ML yields more questions than answers in healthcare
“I tried a lot of those kind of traditional machine learning algorithms to those data sets to solve the real problem to it. Usually, it gives more questions than answers.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 10:43 Yubin Park
Insight
Park: Doctors require ML outputs to be explainable and scientifically grounded
“They always want to understand why machine is producing this kind of output to all those things, and it needs to be scientifically grounded.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 11:15 Yubin Park
Assertion Partly supported
Park: Surgeons are performing knee replacements on much sicker patients
“Ah, traditionally, ah, knee replacement was done for only healthy patients, but now actually, ah, they're, ah, being more aggressive They are performing a knee replacement procedures to a very sick patients, too.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 14:15 Yubin Park
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Park: Healthcare provider and payer incentives are completely undocumented
“Actually, those, all those informations are not very documented. Actually, not documented at all. How they're incentivized, how they work, why they are doing that, all those things.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 7:08 Yubin Park
Assertion Supported
CMS bundled payments hold hospitals accountable 90 days post-surgery
“So in the early summer of this year, CMS, the largest payer in the nation, proposed a new formal bundled payment for joint replacement. Now hostels are accountable for all the events. All the events during the 90 days after knee and hip replacement surgery.”
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 2:13 Yubin Park

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Yubin Park Jul 28, 2017 15m
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