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On what was also International Women’s Day, the March 2022 edition of IndyPy — Indiana’s largest Python meetup founded in 2007 by Six Feet Up CTO and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Hero, Calvin Hendryx-Parker — featured Workflow Engines & Python. In his presentation, Sanjay Siddhanti, Director of Engineering at AKASA, discusses how Python allows AKASA software to save money for clients.

According to Sanjay’s presentation, 66.5% of personal bankruptcies in the United States are due to healthcare costs. On top of that, one-quarter of healthcare industry spending is deemed wasteful, with about $266 billion of that being administrative costs.

With 78% of healthcare providers looking for some sort of automation in the billing process, Sanjay discusses how AKASA fills that need with a Python-based machine learning model that can:

• enter data in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system,
• take claim info from the EHR and enter it into the relevant health insurance website,
• extract relevant information from a webpage or insurance cards; and
• automate common questions for health insurance companies by building web scrapers.

Calvin also teases IndyPy’s 15th anniversary celebration, which will be held in person on May 10.

Watch the Presentation:

Did you miss the presentation? Watch the recording and explore tidbits via @IndyPy’s live Twitter thread.

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You can find Sanjay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaysiddhanti/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/siddhantis
GitHub: https://github.com/sanjaysiddhanti
On his website: https://www.sanjaysiddhanti.com/about/