Artificial Intelligence

Leonard D'Avolio, founder and CEO of Cyft, says machine learning is only a means to an end, helping organizations learn from data more quickly and intuitively.

Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs is enabling collaboration between hospitals, health systems and other stakeholders such as big tech and pharma, says digital health scientist Dr. Sujay Kakarmath.

Automating some processes can deliver diagnoses more quickly, increasing the chance of better outcomes for patients while reducing clinicians' workloads, says Kevin Shah, head of Enterprise New Business at Fujifilm Europe.

Simer Sodhi, director of data management & analytics at Westchester Medical Center, says the organization integrated data from the EHR using a machine learning algorithm to connect patients to the right sources of care.

Infolytx's natural language processing technology is helping with clinical trial cohorts as AI gains real traction across healthcare, explains CEO Badrul Husain.

The most promising use case for blockchain in healthcare is the elimination of "redundant work, rework and reconciliation," says Tej Anand, professor of practice at the University of Texas' McCombs School of Business.

Chad Konchak, assistant vice president of Clinical Analytics at NorthShore University HealthSystem, says the challenge is not so much in the technology development but in the cultural maturity for people to realize what the data can do for them.

Elena Bonfiglioli, Microsoft's regional business leader of Health and Life Sciences at EMEA, says empowering clinicians through collaboration and coordination is at the core of improving outcomes through personalized care.

KVC Health Systems CIO Lonnie Johnson describes the predictive modeling goals and first steps toward AI and machine learning of the multi-state provider of foster care and adoption services.

Duke University Health System Chief Analytics Officer Stephen Blackwelder says interventions are the hardest part as disparate data has to be interwoven for behavior change if risk is to be mitigated.