On July 5^th 1948, The National Health System was launched by Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, at Park Hospital in Manchester (today known as Trafford General Hospital). For the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians and dentists were brought together under one umbrella to provide care for free.

We spoke to Tuomas Kannas, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President at TrueMed. Tuomas gave us his thoughts on AI in medicine ahead of his presentation at Intelligent Health Inspired (25 – 27 May 2020), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

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

Interdisciplinary possibilities, better health results, faster diagnostic outputs.

We spoke to Max Welling, Vice President Technologies, Qualcomm & Research Chair, Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam. Max gave us his thoughts on AI in medicine ahead of his presentation on Deep learning for health data at Intelligent Health Inspired (25 – 27 May 2020), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

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

The enormous potential to improve healthcare services.

We spoke to Tim Whittleson, Urologist at North Bristol NHS Trust. Tim gave us his thoughts on AI in medicine ahead of his presentation (AI – the legacy of COVID-19?) at Intelligent Health Inspired (25 – 27 May 2020), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

We spoke to Sujeeth Bharadwaj, AI Research Lead/Principal Engineer at Microsoft. Sujeeth gave us his thoughts on AI in medicine ahead of his presentation  (Use Case 1 – Training CXR classification models an order-of-magnitude faster using IPUs on Microsoft Azure) at Intelligent Health Inspired (25 – 27 May 2020), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

We spoke to Srinivasan Venkatramanan, Research Scientist - NSSAC Division at the Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative, University of Virginia. Srini gave us his thoughts on AI in medicine ahead of his presentation (Computational modeling and data strategies for predicting and responding to pandemics) at Intelligent Health Inspired (25 – 27 May 2020), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

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

We have seen healthcare transform into a data-intensive discipline over the past decade with the increased use of EHRs, wearable sensors, etc. I am excited to see the synergy of domain knowledge and machine intelligence in improving overall human health.

These are difficult times affecting all aspects of our life and society. Digital health technologies such as AI, big data, 5G and robotics are critical tools in the fight against COVID-19. 

Those who have learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed – Charles Darwin

We are facing a critical moment in human history and how we pivot, innovate, and adapt services and solutions as a community will define a whole generation. As a member of the Intelligent Health AI community you are a critical 1 of 52,000 multidisciplinary experts and you stand alongside world leading colleagues from 169+ countries. At a time when collaboration globally is now more important than ever; innovation must continue, and we have therefore decided to turn our global organisational force into platforms to fight for improved patient outcomes together.

Join Intelligent Health AI this Friday at 11am BST as we reveal the 3rd episode of our Going Viral webinar series: Long term implications of health data use in the response to COVID-19.