AI Impact Series: AI in Health - A new Cambrian Explosion
Event Details
Free
Date and Time
Fri, 13 September 2024
12:00 - 13:00
Location
Your event Zoom link is available via IOB Learn, but will also be emailed to you before 11am on the morning of your event.
Event Details
Free
Date and Time
Fri, 13 September 2024
12:00 - 13:00
Location
Your event Zoom link is available via IOB Learn, but will also be emailed to you before 11am on the morning of your event.
IOB, together with Block W, is delighted to welcome Professor Martin Curley, Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University and Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Maynooth University Innovation Value Institute, for this event.
Health is primarily an information management discipline and thus the Cambrian explosion of AI solutions for health presents an amazing opportunity for Health. This presentation explains the new Stay Left, Shift Left-10X doctrine from transforming health and how AI is an essential catalyst and ingredient.
Different aspects of AI in Health will be explored including:
• How AI should be seen as “Augmented Intelligence” and extra pair of eyes for the clinician
• The different AI areas such as rule based experts systems, natural language processing, machine learning which can be applied to health
• AI in Health and Ethics
• The significance of the EU AI act for health
Professor Martin Curley
Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University and Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University, Ireland
Martin Curley is Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University and Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University, Ireland. Most recently Martin was Chief Information Officer and Director of Digital Transformation for Ireland’s National Health Service (HSE) and previously was Senior Vice President at Mastercard and head of Global Digital Practice.
Martin is chair of the UNGA Digital Health Symposium and has previously been Vice President, Senior Principal Engineer and Director of Intel Labs Europe as well as Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel Corporation. He has held engineering management positions at Philips and General Electronic also. Martin has been identified as a top 10 global influential, inspiring and impactful health leader/educator by a number of international publications and was awarded European Chief Technology Officer of the year in 2015. He chaired the European Commission Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) for seven years, is the creator of Open Innovation 2.0 and has served on multiple EU and European Advisory boards.
He is author of eight books on Innovation, Digital and Entrepreneurship and has keynoted and led executive education across the world, from Boston to Beijing and Sydney to Sao Paolo. He was awarded Irish National Digital Leader of the Year award in 2024 and the world Public Sector Innovation award in 2020 from ICC. Most recently he was also senior advisor to Saskatchewan Health Authority in Canada
Dr Irina Tal
Assistant Professor, School of Computing DCU. Board member BlockW
Dr Tal will moderate this session.
