Sethi: Cancer pathology data remains inaccessible through standard electronic health APIs
Anil Sethi · a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare · Jan 17, 2019 · at 16:01
Anil Sethi explains why oncology data remains difficult to process and integrate programmatically across health systems.
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“A lot of the cancer information is in the pathology report which doesn't come out of APIs yet.”
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