An Interview with Frank Dannacher, Director, AI & Data Practice Lead for Life Science and Healthcare, Deloitte Switzerland

Ahead of chairing Innovation Stage amongst leaders of the most disruptive AI health tech companies at Intelligent Health 2022 (7-8th September, Basel, Switzerland), we asked Frank Dannacher, Director, AI & Data Practice Lead for Life Science and Healthcare, Deloitte Switzerland about his thoughts on the future of AI in healthcare.

Presuming that was solved, what would your second choice be?

Support drug discovery based on data (from genomics to longitudinal patient data).

How do you think AI will make its biggest mark in healthcare in the next 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?

5 years: Drug discovery
10 years: Patient engagement - on wards and at home
20 years: Performing operations.

What excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

Models ability to process vast amount of data to come up with recommendations (while learning). Supports the nurse and doctor in making their treatment decisions, alert patients for (rare) symptoms/diseases.

What’s your biggest fear in relation to the application of AI in the health/medicine field?

AI will support the human contact, as doctors and nurses can focus on key things and i.e. chatbots cover administrative / non medical interactions.

 

What does AI mean for the skill requirements of health professionals? How will it change?

 

We need to make the technology good enough in order for health professionals to easily grasp solutions, tools and the meaning with the / background for i.e. recommendations. Health professionals will have to learn something about data and analytics.

 

Why did you choose to present at Intelligent Health?

 

I attended previous IH conferences, and we are now sponsor. So happy to contribute to / facilitate the common knowledge in this space.

 

What are your personal goals from the summit? 

 

Meet some smart people to exchange views.

 

 

 

 

 

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Frank Dannacher

 

  

We look forward to welcoming him on stage! Join Frank and the AI and healthcare community at Intelligent Health Basel to break down the barriers between tech and healthcare and help #saveliveswithai.  

 

The Intelligent Health team

 

 

About Intelligent Health

 

The AI and healthcare community - clinicians, hospital heads, data scientists, startups, academics, and investors, will come together for two days of collaboration and co-creation, to address how AI can be used to alleviate the elective backlog, improve population health, increase operational efficiencies and drive forward moonshot projects.

 

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Intelligent Health UK |  2023 Dates TBA | London, UK

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Intelligent Health | 07-08 September 2022 | Basel, Switzerland

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