A4: The role of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare

Thursday 19th September 2019 11:00am-12:15pm Part A: IT, AI, Big Data - friends or foes for safe and quality care? This session will explore the digitization of healthcare in the Hospital Authority, Hong Kong, and the development of Clinical Management System/ePatient Records as an indispensible technology to support care delivery and enable better quality, safety & efficiency. As a second focus, we will consider how Big Data can drive further improvements, including AI, concurrent safety checks, and so forth. Finally, we will take a look at how IT can drive new service models and patient engagement (such as HA Go and multifunction Apps for patient). After this session, participants will be able to: See how Hong Kong is utilising IT and AI to enhance safe and patient-centred care across the whole public healthcare sector See how Big Data can drive quality improvement. NT Cheung, Head of Information Technology and Health Informatics/ Chief Medical Informatics Officer; Hong Kong Part B: To be announced Fei Pei Lai, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineeering; Dept of Electrical Engineering; Taiwan