Date: 5:30pm – 8:30pm on April 25, 2024
Location: Paetzold Health Education Centre, Vancouver General Hospital (899 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9)
Event Page: https://tinyurl.com/2cbn69vs
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/ycx45jtw
Data is increasingly shaping our healthcare landscape. From electronic health records to wearable devices, huge amounts of data are generated every hour, offering insights into individual and community health trends, treatment efficacy, and resource allocation. Analyzing these data can allow healthcare providers to personalize treatments, predict health outcomes, and streamline operations for better patient care. However, realizing this potential will require access to large amounts of personal health information and advanced computational capabilities.
The UBC Data Science and Health Cluster’s (DASH) clinical and research partners are developing artificial intelligence algorithms that can analyze patient heart ultrasounds, or echocardiograms, and detect the presence of heart diseases in real-time. The aim in developing this AI-guided tool is to support primary care so that patients have faster access to the echocardiograms they need to receive tailored healthcare in their own communities.
UBC DASH extends the warm invitation to all families, healthcare providers, and knowledge keepers from BC’s communities to join this public engagement event and to share their thoughts, preferences, concerns, and questions related to the development and deployment of AI tools for healthcare. The conversations will guide the practical applications of AI research and how best to implement these advances for the benefit of individuals, families, and communities alike.
Goals:
- Demonstrate a novel AI-guided echocardiography tool developed by front-line clinicians in partnership with UBC engineering and health authority partners.
- Educate the public about the potential of AI in improving cardiac imaging access, and how this could impact rural areas and potentially change heart failure management.
- Learn stakeholder perspectives on the development and use of AI tools in healthcare.
- Facilitate discussions on the ethical and privacy implications of utilizing health data for AI development in healthcare.
- Encourage collaboration and knowledge exchange between stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, including healthcare professionals, policymakers, and community members.
Outcomes:
- An event report will be produced to summarize participant feedback and contributions and will guide the development of future stakeholder engagement, which may include deliberative democracy workshops, focus groups, and surveys.
- A video of event highlights and key messages will be produced.