
ArmadaHealth uses H2O.ai to read patient reviews with NLP and lift Net Promoter scores while cutting model build time from months to days.
Patients struggle to navigate a complex healthcare system and find the right specialist for both their clinical needs and personal preferences. ArmadaHealth needed a way to turn unstructured patient reviews into signal that could improve those matches. Building that capability with traditional methods would have meant a team of PhDs working for months.
Turning those reviews into usable model inputs the traditional way would have required a team of PhDs working for months, a cost and timeline that did not fit how fast the business needed to move.
ArmadaHealth used H2O AI Cloud and its automatic machine learning to build and train a Natural Language Processing model on patient reviews. The model scores reviews across three dimensions that matter to matching: treatment outcome, communication, and attitude.
Using NLP and the platform's interpretability features, the team classifies sentiment as positive, negative, or neutral, then feeds that signal into identifying the best patient-to-expert matches.
With Driverless AI, ArmadaHealth reached the same level of results as a hand-built model, if not better, without standing up a large data science team or waiting months for delivery.
Faster model building and deployment let the team iterate quickly, and better matches contributed to higher Net Promoter scores.
“If you had to traditionally build models, you would have to bring in a team of PhDs and work on it for months together. Now, with Driverless AI, we are able to reach the same level of results, if not better.”Bharath SudharsanDirector of Data Science at ArmadaHealth
How ArmadaHealth leverages machine learning to drive an impact in the healthcare space using H2O Driverless AI.
ArmadaHealth is a healthcare navigation company that connects people to the right doctors, combining data science with clinical expertise to match individuals with the most suitable physicians. Its QualityCare Connect suite serves health plans, consumer-facing healthcare platforms, specialty insurance solutions, and affinity groups, giving members access to qualified providers matched to their condition, location, and personal preferences.
The company's recommendation intelligence runs on a proprietary extended-intelligence platform, S.I.E.N.A., which pairs multivariate quality measures with clinically trained machine learning models to power physician-patient matching. Learn more at https://armadahealth.com.