Technologist, Innovation Provocateur, Former IBM Chief Innovation Officer and Watson Co-lead
The health care industry is traditionally resistant to technological change and disruptions. However, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and the resulting technological shifts are turning health care on its head. From intelligent robotics, personalized medicine and compliance monitoring to immersion technology, predictive monitoring and IoT (Internet of Things)-enabled services, Linda Bernardi discusses inversion technologies like blockchain and AI and their impact on traditional models of research, patient data, clinical trials and drug approval. While hospitals aim for higher revenues, patients require more transparency. Patient portals are one response, but are portals enough? Ms. Bernardi says the hospital landscape of the near future must align with today’s consumer-driven “Know Me” economy.
Learning Objectives:
Identify three ways to improve connection/engagement among patients, colleagues or students.
Recall the disruption of the global pandemic and identify the responses that sped the adoption of previously deferred innovation.
Contrast your institution’s pre-COVID approach to change/innovation/disruption with how it responds now. Can any of the lessons learned during the pandemic be used to embrace future disruption?
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