What Healthcare AI Innovations Are Most Likely to Improve Patient Care?

Professor David Bates, Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis at Mass General Brigham (MGB), is a physician, biomedical informatician, and academic recognised for his research on leveraging health information technology (HIT) to enhance healthcare safety and quality, particularly with clinical decision support systems. In this SGH Hospital of the Future podcast, he shares about his research on informatics and medication safety, the impact of health information systems in reducing patient harms, and how data and active surveillance can ensure health systems deliver optimal care. Dr Goh Su-Yen and Dr Jasmine Ong hear from Professor Bates about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in clinical decision support systems to improve patient safety and care quality, and how innovations and technology such as AI can be implemented to optimise efficacy and safety. Discover why Professor Bates is passionate about biomedical informatics or the study and application of computing science to enhance communication, comprehension, and management of healthcare data and information. About Professor David Bates Professor David Bates is also co-Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Learning Systems (CAIBILS) at MGB, and a Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). In June 2023, he stepped down as Chief of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at BWH after 25 years in that role. Professor Bates is also a Professor at both Harvard Medical School and at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; in addition, he directs the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at BWH. Previously, he served as Chief Quality Officer and later as Chief Innovation Officer at BWH. Professor Bates is an internationally renowned expert in patient safety, using information technology to improve care, quality-of-care, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes assessment. He has served as president of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) and as Board Chair of the International Society of Quality and Safety. Professor Bates has been recognised for several years by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the “100 most powerful” individuals in U.S. health care. He has published over 1,200 peer-reviewed papers which have been cited over 162,000 times. Professor Bates is among the 400 most cited of all biomedical researchers and is listed as being among the top 500 scientists in the world. Professor Bates served as external program lead for research for the World Health Organization's Global Alliance for Patient Safety and is past president of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua). In addition, Professor Bates is the Editor of the Journal of Patient Safety. About SGH Hospital of the Future Podcast Hosts Dr Goh Su-Yen is Senior Consultant, Endocrinology at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Head and Senior Consultant, SingHealth Duke-NUS Diabetes Centre, and Group Director, Innovation and Transformation, SingHealth, with an interest in innovation and transformation. Dr Jasmine Ong is Principal Clinical Pharmacist, and Research Peak Co-Lead for Cardiovascular Emergencies at SGH. Her research interests include pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics of adult critically ill patients, as well as AI and health technology innovation. Dr Ong leads several AI projects in Pharmacy and is an appointed EXCO member in the SingHealth AI Office. A US-ASEAN J William Fulbright Scholar to University of California San Francisco, sponsored by the world-renowned Professor and Dean of School of Pharmacy Professor Kathy Giacomini. SGH Hospital of the Future Podcast is also available on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5XuXifizabpKU4rzTyL3e9 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sgh-hospital-of-the-future/id1817347118 Find out more about the podcast series at https://www.sgh.com.sg/about-sgh/news/hospital-of-the-future #SingaporeGeneralHospital website: https://www.sgh.com.sg #SGH #SGHHospitalOfTheFuture #podcast #healthcare #innovation #healthcareinnovation #hospitalinnovation #DareToInnovate #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #patientsafety