Shankar Viswanathan

RareBERT: Transformer Architecture for Rare Disease Patient Identification using Administrative Claims

A rare disease is any disease that affects a very small percentage (1 in 1,500) of population. It is estimated that there are nearly 7,000 rare disease affecting 30 million patients in the U. S. alone. Most of the patients suffering from rare diseases experience multiple misdiagnoses and may never b…