By Chronolife

Paris, (France) July 23^rd, 2020 – As part of the Coalition Innovation Santé – Crise Sanitaire initiative, Chronolife and Servier are collaborating to accelerate the deployment of a non-invasive telemonitoring solution which aims to facilitate remote monitoring of chronic patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and enable healthcare professionals to provide better patient care.

There are some pretty extraordinary things happening in the health sector on the continent of Africa, not least of which because there is a trend towards rapid technological adoption. With a fast-growing population and faster growing economy, the opportunity for tech-forward healthcare is profound.

We spoke to Dr. Kourosh Saeb-Parsy is Chief Medical Officer at Oxford Immune Algorithmics Ltd. MD & PhD in Neurosciences (Cambridge). 

Kourosh, what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

The opportunity to democratise healthcare and make a global impact in alleviating disease and suffering

We spoke to Elena van Dijk, CEO, CME Swiss, ahead of her presentation at Intelligent Health (9-10 September 2020, Online), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

Elena, what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

AI sees what we cannot see.

We spoke to Siddartha Jha, AI/Digital Program Manager at Fondation Botnar, ahead of his presentation at Intelligent Health (9-10 September 2020, Online), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

Siddartha, what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

The potential of benefiting from the experiences of 100's of thousands of healthcare and medical professionals to bring state of the art health care to everyone, everywhere, whenever it is needed.

We spoke to Yusuke Nakamura, Managing Partner at Plusman ahead of his presentation at Intelligent Health (9-10 September 2020, Online), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

Yusuke , what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

All the doctors have AI as pets.

We spoke to Vincent Keunen, Founder of Andaman7, ahead of his presentation at Intelligent Health (9-10 September 2020, Online), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

Vincent, what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

AI can - simply said - reduce costs and augment quality of medical care and research..

We spoke to Lucy Setian, Digital and AI Stakeholder Engagement Lead  at the Novartis Foundation, ahead of her presentation at Intelligent Health (9-10 September 2020, Online), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

So Lucy, what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

Opportunity to co-develop with the key users and trial it quickly in real-world conditions. If successful, you can drive immediate change and adoption.

We spoke to Oliver Smith, Strategy Director & Head of Ethics
at Alpha Health, Telefónica Innovación Alpha ahead of his presentation at Intelligent Health (9-10 September 2020, Online), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

So Oliver, what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

The promise of being able to deliver personalised care to everyone, whenever they need it. At the moment this is a significant trade-off in healthcare systems. Your clinician can provide great, personalised care to you, but sometimes it can be really hard to access a clinician, not without a long wait, and sometimes not at all.

We spoke to Mariam Shokralla, Digital Health consultant at the World Health Organization. She gave us her thoughts on AI in medicine ahead of her presentation at Intelligent Health (9-10 September 2020, Online), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

So Mariam, what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?:

It's the potential to decrease health inequalities especially geographical inequalities. Ethically grounded AI solutions can help extend quality care to marginalized people, transform our health systems from being reactive to predictive and preventive, from Tertiary care to primary care especially to NCDs.