AI
Some leaders say AI will improve a massively inefficient, overpriced and difficult-to-access healthcare system, while others anticipate AI’s potential for earlier, more accurate diagnosis.
AI and genAI can reduce paperwork and errors by automating tasks prone to human error like data entry, clinical documentation and billing, says Aashima Gupta, Google Cloud's healthcare vertical lead.
Andre Esteva, CEO and cofounder of Artera, a spin-out of Salesforce, relays how the company's AI tool looks at images of cancer tumors and recommends specific therapies to clinicians.
Eric Smith, chief digital officer at Memorial Hermann Health System, discusses the health systems' AI governance council and the use of AI in its day-to-day operations - including patient interactions and ambient listening.
Pivoting from a healthcare administrator leader into chief health AI officer requires a substantial amount of health AI knowledge or a willingness to get that knowledge, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.
The chief AI officer should understand basic principles about AI, have a computing background and know the ultimate clinical use case, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.
Sunny Virmani, group product manager of health AI at Google, discusses expanding access to AI models for diabetic retinopathy in India and Thailand, AI’s potential to transform healthcare and Google’s plans for AI in healthcare in 2025.
Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems, says it is necessary to slow down AI implementation due to a lack of transparency, AI not being trained on real-patient data and the potential implications of synthetic data use.
Cybersecurity is linked to health equity and vice versa, says HIMSS senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy. Cybersecurity must extend beyond the clinical setting as data access to patient information is necessary.
Dr. Keisuke Nakagawa, director of innovation at UC Davis Health, highlights how artificial intelligence can help unearth social determinants of health and how AI can advance health equity.