How do we harness rapidly evolving healthcare technologies responsibly? Prof Ophir Frieder, Georgetown University shares real-world insights

Digital health is not new, but the technologies enabling it are evolving rapidly. Uncritical adoption of emerging technologies can lead to wasted resources, and worse, potential harm. Professor Frieder will examine deployed, real-world AI healthcare applications and highlight key lessons learned from their development.

Agenda:

16:00 -16:45 – Welcome and talk from Ophir Frieder

16:45 -17:00 - Audience discussion and Q&A

17:00 -17:30 - Drinks

About Ophir:

Ophir Frieder focuses on scalable information processing systems with particular emphasis on health informatics. An inductee of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and a Member of both Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, he is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IEEE, and NAI, and an Inaugural Member of both the ACM SIGIR Academy and the WIC Web Intelligence Academy.

He has co-founded multiple companies, advised or consulted for many others, and is a named inventor on over 150 issued US patents and 50 pending applications, a significant portion of which are in products or systems in daily use. He is a member of the Computer Science faculty at Georgetown University and the Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics faculty at the Georgetown University Medical Center.

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