From AI to Big Data: can technology save the NHS?




Academy of Ideas show

Summary: <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Recording of the debate at the Battle of Ideas 2017 in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering. See full details here: <a href="https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/from-ai-to-big-data-can-technology-save-the-nhs/">https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/from-ai-to-big-data-can-technology-save-the-nhs/</a></span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At a time of ever-increasing healthcare costs, waiting times and ever-increasing strains on GPs and A&amp;E departments, there is increased urgency in trying to find new approaches to treatment. Against this backdrop of cost-driven strains in patient care, can engineering innovations save the day, perhaps giving patients more independence to accurately self-diagnose and more broadly revolutionise healthcare in the coming decades?</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">SPEAKERS</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Terry Barnes</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">principal, Cormorant Policy Advice; fellow, Institute of Economic Affairs; former special adviser to two Australian health ministers</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Trisha Greenhalgh</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">professor of primary care health sciences and fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Timandra Harkness</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">journalist, writer &amp; broadcaster; presenter, FutureProofing; author, Big Data: does size matter?</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Professor Mark Tooley</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">medical technology consultant; president, Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr ir Isabel Van De Keere</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CEO &amp; founder, Immersive Rehab</span></p>