Category: Health Information Technology
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When Patients Benefit from AI, Society Benefits: Report Highlights the Socioeconomic Benefits of AI in Healthcare By Mario Romao, Global Director of Health Policy for Intel As we enter a new year with a continued focus on advancements in healthcare, AI has the potential to make a positive impact at every stage of the patient journey. A recent report from MedTech Europe and Deloitte outlines eight distinct applications for AI in healthcare. From using wearable devices...
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Achieving Digitization in Healthcare Requires Support from Federal Policy
By Steve Allen, Director of Clinical Systems Segment, Health and Life Sciences, Intel Imagine a specialist performing surgery on a patient from thousands of miles away via robotics, or another surgeon doing a long-distance consult in an operating room or via a remotely controlled telecart with a laser pointer to help the local team identify sensitive tissues. Or a robot...
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A roadmap to AI maturity in healthcare: a look into data and technology
By Mario Romao, Global Director of Health Policy & Prashant Shah, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence for Health and Life Sciences Much has been written about the present and future role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Real world examples show that AI can help physicians and researchers prevent disease, speed recovery and save lives, speed genomics processing and make...
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AI in Healthcare: Shedding Light on Some Misperceptions
By Steve Allen, Director, Clinical Systems Segment, Health and Life Sciences at Intel As we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, applying innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare is more critical than ever. Many don’t know how AI functions in healthcare, and its use is sometimes met with fear. Some envision a world where robots replace physicians,...
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Telehealth growth responding to policy advances, yet much more needed to better serve patients
By David Ryan, General Manager of Health & Life Sciences at Intel In the past decade, Americans have seen remarkable advancements in medical technology, particularly in the field of telehealth. Innovations like video appointments, tele-consultation and remote monitoring have revolutionized both the quality of care and the opportunities to reach patients who live far from health care facilities. Despite the...
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A 5G Inflection Point on the Horizon
By Jayne Stancavage, Executive Director of Communications Policy One of the aspects of my job that excites me the most is knowing the 5G technology I’m working to implement has the capacity to improve the lives of people both in the US and around the world. Nothing illustrates this potential better than considering how 5G can transform the healthcare industry...
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The U.S. Needs a Stronger and Better Privacy Law
By David A. Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer On March 12th, I was honored to testify to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: GDPR & CCPA: Opt-ins, Consumer Control, and the Impact on Competition and Innovation. It was a welcome opportunity to explain why the U.S. needs a stronger and better privacy law than the California Consumer Privacy Act...
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Intel’s Connected Care: The Model to Improving Patient Experience and Lowering Healthcare Costs
By Lisa Malloy, Head of U.S. Government Affairs and Mario Romao, Director of Health and Data Policy at Intel Providing access to high quality healthcare while keeping costs under control is a challenge for many large businesses. Intel, which employs about 50,000 people in the US, has taken major steps to ensure that employees and their families receive high-quality, well-coordinated...
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Data Saves Lives
By Mario Romao, Director, Health and Data Policy At the 2nd European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) Congress, held in Milan 26-28 November I had the pleasure to speak at a session on health data sharing. Whilst doctors are the ones saving lives, data - and the information thereof – are the building blocks of medical knowledge. In the era...
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Innovation in healthcare can revolutionize patient outcomes
By Mário Romão, Health and Data Policy at Intel The statistics are sobering. More than 1 in 3 men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes. Efforts in science, medicine and public health have led to a decrease of the mortality rate in the US (1.8 percent and 1.4 percent per year from 2006-2015,...
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