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# Meet The Speakers: Deloitte Switzerland

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We’re really excited to welcome our sponsor Deloitte to Intelligent Health 2021 in Amsterdam. Ahead of their fascinating workshop on ‘Bringing an AI-driven Digital Health Solution from Idea to Scaling’, we sat down with Nishant Sinha, Director, AI & Automation, Deloitte Switzerland and Frank Dannacher, Director, AI & Data Practice Lead for Life Science and Healthcare, Deloitte Switzerland to discuss the future of AI in healthcare and the latest developments in the field.

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

 

**Nishant Sinha:**

The ability of AI to impact our daily lives directly and to make it significantly better.

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**Frank Dannacher:**

Technology can improve patients quality of life - even save them.

 

**What’s your biggest fear about the application of AI in health/medicine?**

 

**Nishant Sinha:**

The application of AI driving reduction in the Humane aspect of medicare.

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**Frank Dannacher:**

I’m worried that regulatory or old thinking stands in the way of sharing data.

 

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

 

**Nishant Sinha: **

AI will enable us to proactively identify health issues and suggest remedial actions i.e. enable us to move away from remediation to prevention.

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**Frank Dannacher:**

AI could offer opportunities for remote monitoring treatment to keep patients out of hospitals.

 

**How do you think AI will change human contact in healthcare?**

 

**Nishant Sinha:**

Increased usage of Digital assistants helping provide healthcare at scale with cost efficiency.

 

**Frank Dannacher:**

We should still preserve human contact in healthcare but for example, hometesting will mean less interaction.

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

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**Nishant Sinha:**

Able to work with AI system to understand how to leverage it to supplement insights and thus improve outcomes.

 

**Frank Dannacher:**

They need to start thinking digital - this has improved recently with Covid

 

 

**Which 2 people do you admire most in the world of AI in terms of their work?**

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**Nishant Sinha:**

1) Andrew NG for his ability to make learning of AI easily accessible  
2) Elon Musk for his ability to think out of the box and take risks

 

**Frank Dannacher:**

Martin Jespersen on Synthetic data...

 

 

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