Cleveland Clinic hosted its inaugural AI Summit for Healthcare Professionals on July 11.
Here are six things to know, according to a July 11 news release:
1. More than 650 healthcare professionals attended the summit in Cleveland, including 450 on-site and 200 virtually.
2. Cleveland Clinic Chief AI Officer Ben Shahshahani, PhD, and Scott Steele, MD, president of Cleveland Clinic’s main campus submarket, discussed how to safely innovate with AI.
3. Keynote speaker David Rhew, MD, global chief medical officer of Microsoft, discussed the company’s vision of how AI will improve healthcare for all.
4. Serpil Erzurum, MD, executive vice president and chief research and academic officer of Cleveland Clinic, analyzed how AI will change medical education.
5. “Cleveland Clinic has been at the forefront of leveraging AI to enhance patient care and caregiver experience as well as to help our organization be more efficient,” Dr. Shahshahani stated. “The technologies continue to improve and evolve quickly. Events like this can help clinicians understand how they can benefit from these advances now and what care may look like in the future.”
6. The conference was hosted in collaboration with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, a professional organization for healthcare IT executives.
