The Beat AI @ HLTH: Navigating AI Integration and Future-Proofing Health Systems
In this episode, host Sandy Vance sits down with Haris Shuaib, the CEO at Newton's Tree to explore how AI is transforming healthcare. Newton’s Tree partners with leading health systems and AI vendors to make AI adoption safe, effective, and scalable. Haris shares practical insights on where health systems should begin, how to design for agility, and what it takes to evolve alongside rapidly changing technology. Together, they look ahead to the future of AI in healthcare, where innovation and compassion go hand in hand because helping people still remains at the heart of every advancement.
In this episode, they talk about:
- The birth of Newton’s Tree
- Health systems should start small and design for agility
- Technology adoption best practices
- Newton’s Tree’s four-step framework to aid health systems through their entire life cycles
- Balancing the need to implement quickly and properly at the same time
- The future of standards for AI in healthcare
- We must evolve with technology
A Little About Haris:
Haris Shuaib is Founder and CEO of Newton’s Tree, a startup dedicated to AI transformation at scale in health and care. He is Director of the Fellowships in Clinical Artificial Intelligence, the world’s-first clinical training programme for healthcare professionals to develop practical AI skills. He is also a Consultant Clinical Scientist and former Head of the Clinical Scientific Computing section at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS FT. Finally, he also holds a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship, where he is leading a national multi-centre trial to see whether AI can improve the treatment of glioblastoma.