The Beat Live at ViVE: Top Use Cases for AI in Healthcare—with Harjinder Sandhu
AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, from predictive analytics to operations management to remote patient monitoring.
But with so many possibilities, where do we begin? And how do we use AI responsibly with our health information?
Harjinder Sandhu is CTO of Health and Life Sciences Platforms and Solutions at Microsoft, where he helps chart Microsoft strategy around the application of large language models in healthcare.
Harjinder has founded and cofounded several successful startups centered around AI and healthcare, including Saykara, Twistle and MedRemote.
On this episode of The Beat, Harjinder joins hosts Dr. Jessica Shepherd and Dr. Gautam Gulati to discuss the impact and implications of AI on our health information.
Harjinder describes some of the administrative and clinical use cases of AI in healthcare, highlighting what Microsoft’s DAX Copilot can do for clinicians and why he predicts its quick adoption.
Listen in for Harjinder’s insight into using artificial intelligence responsibly and learn about generative AI’s potential to improve the patient experience and ‘bring the joy back to medicine’ for clinicians.
Topics Covered
- Harjinder’s important role in crafting AI strategy at Microsoft
- How Microsoft thinks about the possibilities of AI in the context of healthcare
- Administrative and clinical use cases for generative AI in health
- Harjinder’s approach to reducing redundancy in the patient journey
- The potential for AI to ‘bring the joy back to medicine’
- What Microsoft’s AI DAX Copilot can do for clinicians and why Harjinder predicts quick adoption
- Introducing new tech to single physician practices and rural hospitals
- AI uses cases we should approach with caution vs. relatively risk-free applications
- The frameworks Microsoft uses to think rationally about responsible AI
- Why Microsoft encourages customers to implement AI solutions with human oversight
- The potential for AI to help reduce human bias in healthcare
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