Conversations with Healthcare Innovators

A conversation series with people who are building, evaluating and implementing digital innovations in healthcare (2-7-24)

Hi,

I recently had the great pleasure of speaking with two of the most influential thinkers in digital health: Drs Jag Singh and David McManus. There were lots of pearls during this conversation. Grab your favorite beverage and let’s dive in.

Enjoy,

Hamid

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My top takeaways from Dr. Jag Singh’s talk:

1. Medicine is changing and digital health is going to change the way we deliver and receive care.

2. The future of care will be virtual, sensor aided, powered by AI with sustainable workflows.

3. Every organ in the body can be potentially digitized. Sensors will provide the opportunity to monitor, forecast and proactively intervene in disease processes.

4. You can have data without information but you cannot have information without data. We will need AI to compute all this data.

5. The only way of ensuring sustainability in our healthcare system and delivering on the demand for value is to construct digital pathways.

6. Being digital is a culture change. It's a change in the value proposition. We have to evolve from being transactional to care that is more continuous and supported by AI driven logic.

7. The secret of the care of the patient lies in caring for the patient.

My takeaways from Dr. David McManus’s talk:

1. Disruptive technology is reshaping healthcare in unplanned ways.

2. Digital health connects and empowers populations, teams and systems of care.

3. There is more than just technology at play: multiple data streams accessed by patients and caregivers changes the patient physician relationship and democratizes care.

4. AI, in the short term, will largely enter into health care operations but over time it will involve every aspect of care delivery.

5. Most patients still trust their care to nurses and physicians in institutions with established reputations over health services offered by technology companies.

6. We have not structured our health data to be truly useful to generate knowledge.

7. Tools alone are not enough. It's the people who use sensors in new and thoughtful ways that really make a difference. Great example of these are UMass AI assisted discharge program and hospital at home program.

8. AI is not replacing us, but physicians who have AI expertise are going to be more desirable to employers than physicians without AI expertise.

9. We all need to participate together in evaluation of the promising AI tools that are being created by industry.

10. You have to demonstrate recognition and provide incentives for adopting innovations by health care workers.

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Talk soon,

Hamid