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.

You said: “no more manels!”

During these uncertain times over COVID-19, Intelligent Health, the annual meeting place of the global AI and healthcare communities taking place every September in Switzerland, has been redesigned in a new online format and theme “Without Borders”. 

At a time when collaboration globally is more important than ever; innovation must continue and technology and healthcare professionals must join forces to fight the biggest disruptor the world has faced in a generation.

The InspiredMinds approach to COVID-19 is with empathy, kindness and collaboration with our community – without borders.

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?