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What opportunities can AI offer in healthcare?

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 03 October 2018
  • 17:3 - 17:3
  • Duration: 2 mins
  • Publication date: 17 Oct 2018
  • Location: Kelvin Lecture Theatre, IET London: Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event This AI Life

About the session

‘This AI Life’ was the second annual conference organised by Cooley LLP, Future Intelligence and the IET examining the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the population.

The aim of this year’s event was to offer a pragmatic assessment of where AI technology is, where it is going, what that means and what we must do to ensure it works to improve people’s lives.

Consisting of thought-provoking case studies, keynotes and discussions to equip attendees with the right skills and knowledge to understand the current landscape, the conference featured a line-up of leading figures from across the field – visionary speakers from industry and academia, as well as tech entrepreneurs and much more.

The first part of the programme, on Opportunities, looked at the potential possibilities that AI presents across the healthcare sector and how it could be utilised to improve outcomes for patients and clinicians. In this video, speakers from the event offer up some examples. 

For more information on This AI Life, visit www.theiet.org/ai  

Keywords:
  • AI
  • ai technology
  • algorithm
  • artificial intelligence
  • big data
  • doctors
  • healthcare
  • machine learning
  • nurses
  • patients
  • physicians
  • radiologist
  • scans

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Health care

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IT

Speakers

  • PD

    Peter Durlach

    Peter Durlach is the senior vice president of strategy and new business development for Nuance’s Healthcare Division where he holds a pivotal role in advancing the portfolio of healthcare solutions to align with industry pressures and shifting needs of healthcare clients.Peter helped create the Healthcare division and drive significant growth between 2006 and 2011 and then briefly left the company to act as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre.Prior to Nuance, Peter worked as a consultant, president of Unveil Technologies, Inc. and vice president of marketing and business development at Lernout and Hauspie. Peter graduated from the University of Vermont with Summa Cum Laude honours where he received his B.S. in Business Administration.
  • CM

    Christian Moroy

    Edge Health

    Christian Moroy is the co-founder & CTO of Edge Health.Edge Health is a London-based start-up that uses AI to improve operational efficiency of NHS hospitals. Edge has worked with over 10 hospitals in the last year alone and successfully deployed AI tools on the ground that have enabled staff to more efficiently allocate beds and better schedule theatre lists, for example.Prior to Edge, Christian worked as an economist and healthcare consultant focused on technical healthcare advisory.
  • BI

    Dr Beatriz de la Iglesia

    Dr Beatriz de al Iglesia is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. She is a data mining expert with experience of health care data analysis. Past projects included the analysis of primary care datasets for disease risk evaluation; text mining of gastroenterology procedural reports to identify key success indicators and linking data in the secondary care setting in order to create patient-centric databases suitable for clinical research.Current projects have an emphasis on big data, in particular methodologies for big data analysis such as work on data quality grading and assurance, analysis of heterogeneous data and multiple imputation for missing data. A current project on emergency preparedness looks at improving current syndromic surveillance systems by collection and analysis of twitter data for syndromic surveillance.
  • SI

    Dr Shah Islam

    During his clinical training, he was appointed as a NIHR academic clinical fellow at Europe’s leading cancer research institute, ICR.He is currently a clinical research fellow at the Imperial College London, within the division of Brain Sciences, aiming to develop quantitative biomarkers using advanced imaging techniques to prognosticate aggressive brain tumours. He has extensive experience in setting up and managing clinical trials and is running the multicentre ‘Diffusion in Glioma’ study across five major neuroscience centres in the UK. In addition to this, he is also responsible for carrying out MRC funded Phase I-III trials, testing a novel PET/MRI imaging tracer for the use of detecting and measuring treatment response in patients with glioma.Aside from his commitment to clinical trials, he is heavily involved in the science of Deep Radiomics, which applies deep learning algorithms to quantitative imaging data with the aim to characterise brain tumour phenotype and predict clinical outcome. As a result of his work in using AI in medical imaging, he is one of the core advisors to the Academic Health Science Network, having worked on the National Survey on AI in Healthcare.
  • Laurence Moroney

    Laurence Moroney

    Google

    Laurence Moroney is a Developer Advocate at Google working on AI and Machine Learning with TensorFlow.A veteran speaker at conferences all over the world, he's also the best-selling author of books on all types of software development. When not Googling he's a published Sci-Fi author, a produced screenwriter, and a budding comic-book writer.He's passionate about cutting through to the truth about the possibilities and opportunities of AI, while staying grounded in what the technology is capable of.
  • Peter Durlach

    Peter Durlach

    Peter Durlach is the senior vice president of strategy and new business development for Nuance’s Healthcare Division where he holds a pivotal role in advancing the portfolio of healthcare solutions to align with industry pressures and shifting needs of healthcare clients.Peter helped create the Healthcare division and drive significant growth between 2006 and 2011 and then briefly left the company to act as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre.Prior to Nuance, Peter worked as a consultant, president of Unveil Technologies, Inc. and vice president of marketing and business development at Lernout and Hauspie. Peter graduated from the University of Vermont with Summa Cum Laude honours where he received his B.S. in Business Administration.
  • Christian Moroy

    Christian Moroy

    Edge Health

    Christian Moroy is the co-founder & CTO of Edge Health.Edge Health is a London-based start-up that uses AI to improve operational efficiency of NHS hospitals. Edge has worked with over 10 hospitals in the last year alone and successfully deployed AI tools on the ground that have enabled staff to more efficiently allocate beds and better schedule theatre lists, for example.Prior to Edge, Christian worked as an economist and healthcare consultant focused on technical healthcare advisory.
  • Dr Beatriz  de la Iglesia

    Dr Beatriz de la Iglesia

    Dr Beatriz de al Iglesia is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. She is a data mining expert with experience of health care data analysis. Past projects included the analysis of primary care datasets for disease risk evaluation; text mining of gastroenterology procedural reports to identify key success indicators and linking data in the secondary care setting in order to create patient-centric databases suitable for clinical research.Current projects have an emphasis on big data, in particular methodologies for big data analysis such as work on data quality grading and assurance, analysis of heterogeneous data and multiple imputation for missing data. A current project on emergency preparedness looks at improving current syndromic surveillance systems by collection and analysis of twitter data for syndromic surveillance.
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