Validation of a Clinical Recommendation System

The development of a clinical decision support system is at the nexus of using data analytic techniques to inform and support dentists in the clinical practice. The purpose of this project is to develop conduct an innovation study to validate the analytic algorithms developed by OraQ for the purposes of facilitating clinical diagnosis. OraQ has developed an alternative algorithm to facilitate the detection of issues with sleep apnea. The purpose of this project is to: a) evaluate and validate the algorithms used by OraQ on the detection of sleep apnea through the use of secondary data analysis, b) conduct an evaluation on the detection of sleep apnea through completing a comparison between OraQ’s algorithm and subject matter experts in a reliability study. This is a great opportunity for all parties involved while improving the field of dental analytics. OraQ will be able to address the need to validate their product with resources and expertise to conduct two validation studies. The graduate student in the Master of Dentistry program with an interest in dental analytics.

Faculty Supervisor:

Hollis Lai

Student:

Partner:

OraQ

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

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