Champion of Intelligent Health! - a podcast by Andrea Macdonald Creator ideaXme

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Tom Lawry, National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft. 

Tom works with providers, health and life science organisations to plan and implement innovative analytical and predictive solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of health services delivered around the globe. At Microsoft, he creates strategies for digital transformation applied to performance optimisation including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Cognitive Services and to move those sectors forward within the context of both individual and population health. This interview is for the technology geeks amongst us as well as the general public who'd like to know more about what's happening next! In this ideaXme interview Tom: Discusses specific examples, from cutting costs of healthcare to reducing fatalities amongst patients, of how AI has performed and delivered results within medicine and healthcare. Moreover, he shares how this is set to improve in the next 10 years. Talks of the specific ways in which AI can improve your health as an individual. The pervasiveness of AI, across most sectors from health to entertainment, in society now. He demystifies the "intelligence" as well as the associated technologies. He sparks curiosity in what's happening next within the sector. He describes his mission to drive AI for the good of humanity "AI for Good" within the sectors of health and life sciences. He talks of the risks which must be mitigated in order to optimise the potential of AI including protecting both organisations' as well as individuals' data. His tells the audience of his national and international work within the sector. His answers questions about book AI in Health: A Leaders Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health. https://www.waterstones.com/book/ai-i...​

Lastly, we talk of AI law and ethics.

Tom's Biography Prior to his current position, Lawry was Director of Organizational Performance for Microsoft’s health incubator (Health Solutions Group). Before that he worked as Senior Director at GE Healthcare with global responsibilities for revenue cycle management analytics and operational performance solutions. Lawry also has an entrepreneurial background. He was founder and CEO of Verus, a healthcare software company, one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Washington Companies for three consecutive years and to the Deloitte Fast 500 Technologies list. For twelve years Lawry served in various executive management roles in hospitals and integrated delivery networks. He has published numerous articles on topics relating to use technology and software to innovate healthcare. His new book from HIMSS & CRC Press is: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Leader’s Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems. Representative Keynote Conference Presentations “AI in Health – The Future is not What I Used to be,” Arab Health CEO forum, Dubai, UAE, Feb. 2020. “AI, Digital, and the Creative Destruction of Careers in Healthcare,” Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy, Toronto, Canada, May 2019 “Changing the Face of Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence,” The Intelligent Health Association’s AI in Health Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 2018 “Empowering Healthcare with Systems of Intelligence,” HIMSS, Las Vegas, NV, March 2018 “Digital Transformation in Health – What Can Health Learn from the Private Sector?” The Nobel Forum, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2017 AI is Healthcare’s Next Big Thing,” European Health Innovation Summit, Brussels, Belgium, January 2017 “Health Policy in an Era of Big Data & Digital Transformation,” Commonwealth Fund International Symposium on Health Policy, Washington, D.C., November 2016 “The Transformative Power of Big Data in Health”, Asan International Medical Symposium, Seoul, South Korea, June 2016 “What will the Future of Technology Innovation Bring to Health?”, High Reliability Health Conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, February 2016 “Empowering Health – the Innovator’s Perspective”, European Health Summit, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 2016.

Links: Tom: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomlawry/​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tclawry?lang=en​ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai...​ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/world...​ ideaXme: https://radioideaxme.com​ https://www.instagram.com/ideaxme/?hl=en​ https://twitter.com/ideaxm?ref_src=tw...​ https://www.facebook.com/ideaXme/​ https://www.linkedin.com/company/1867...​ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...​

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