Join Intelligent Health on Wednesday 3rd June at 1pm BST as we reveal the 5th episode of our Going Viral webinar series. Key experts will share insights on the priority health needs, where AI-driven solutions can assist low and middle-income countries in the fight against COVID-19.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 has spread rapidly around the world with devastating consequences on patients, healthcare workers, health systems, and economies. Those who live and work in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) held their collective breath as the single red dot on the world map morphed into red dots in almost every country in the world.

The past 12 weeks have seen a rapid increase in discussions around how patients are adapting to technology driven healthcare. The up-scaling and accelerated adoption of new technologies has been a challenge for global clinicians, but how do patients feel? And of course HOW can we predict and prevent future viruses and pandemics?

The issue of ethics around AI and patient data isn’t new, but COVID-19 has even more voices asking the same questions – is this technology ethical? Am I using the right levels of consent? What is the impact and potential harm of capturing, processing and storing this information?

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.