AI in Healthcare (Issues, Innovations and Solutions)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in several industries including Healthcare. A number of patents and investments in AI startups are growing significantly. Industry reports indicate that AI has the potential to improve healthcare outcomes by 30 to 40 percent while simultaneously cutting the costs of treatment in half.

Is it all hype? What specific areas of needs in healthcare that AI will help or will not? What are the challenges in adopting AI in healthcare? What journey is needed to implement an AI solution? What are some of those solutions? If you have these questions, attend our event to learn from healthcare professionals, innovators, and technology experts.

Speakers:
Dr. Thomas K. Warcup, D.O., MHA
Sr Medical Director for UNC Health Alliance

Dr. Warcup is a board-certified family physician with 18 years of clinical and administrative experience. Currently, He is the Senior Medical Director for UNC Health Alliance, the Next Generation ACO arm of UNC, and is responsible for the portfolio of Population Health interventions to improve quality and reduce total cost of care. Dr. Warcup will talk about the healthcare issues of identifying high and rising risk patient populations where AI could help.

Moline Prak Pandiyan
Innovation Advisor, RTI

Moline Prak Pandiyan is an Innovation Advisor at RTI International. She works with innovators to help move their great ideas and inventions into real-life solutions. Her passion is in medical innovation, and her work has directly impacted the healthcare industry through her work with medical device companies—which include Fortune 100 companies—startups, health systems, and others. Moline will talk about the innovations, strategies, and challenges in carving out AI solutions to solve healthcare issues.

Dr. Mark Wolff
Advisory Industry Consultant & Chief Health Analytics Strategist for SAS Global IoT Division, SAS Institute

Dr. Wolff is recognized as an accomplished practitioner and thought leader in the development and application of advanced and predictive analytics to complex problems in healthcare. Dr. Wolf will talk about the SAS solutions and application of machine learning approaches to real-time sensor/IoT data in support of health outcomes and safety research, visualization and development of intelligent, decision support systems.

Sponsors:
Smashing Boxes
Smashing Boxes develops and designs next-generation products for web, mobile and connected devices. For organizations seeking innovative technologies to address their greatest business challenges, Smashing Boxes provides cross-disciplinary teams who collaborate with our partners on bringing digital ideas to life -- from vision to launch and beyond. Founded in 2010, Smashing Boxes is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, with offices in Richmond and New Orleans. For more information, visit smashingboxes.com.

SAS
SAS is an industry leader and trusted analytics powerhouse for organizations seeking immediate value from their data.