IoT Slam 2020 – PANEL: FLIPPING HEALTHCARE ON ITS EDGE
Session Abstract:
This discussion will provide insights into how the dominant design of healthcare has evolved and how big-tech is collaborating to accelerate a 180⁰ flip of the axis. Mac Devine (IBM Fellow) moderates a discussion with Ted Tanner Jr., (Global CTO Watson Health), Heather Cartwright ( Microsoft, General Manager, Microsoft Health Cloud), Cole Crawford, (Founder of vapor.io) and Kimberly Powell (NVIDIA, Vice President, NVIDIA Healthcare) to explore the advancement of smart-edge ecosystems for the execution of trusted/efficient transactions in concert with ubiquitous consumer access to personalized care. Unintended consequences resulting from decades of highly regulated industry evolution have exacerbated healthy-life challenges associated with modern society in general – and now, even more so dealing with fallout from the novel corona virus. Care delivery institutions are scrambling to shift from in-office / institutionalized interactions to remote models of contextualized-settings of care. Healthcare is now at a tipping point fueled by heightened pent-up demand and enabled by consumer-tech smart devices/wearables that have flourished to digitize most other verticals and segments. Assembling distributed, networked Smart Edge and IoT ecosystems connected with the consumer is a pursuit underway across many of the big players in hi-tech health. Healthcare, wellness, and society in many ways have become victims of data/knowledge/context constraints in this domain. As a tech industry, we undoubtedly have the potential to fuel a raid pivot from an antiquated, monolithic model of healthcare. Our presentation will illuminate our collaboration to catalyze conversion toward a kinetically favored future vision.
Speakers:
Theodore C. Tanner Jr. Global CTO and Chief Architect for Watson Health, IBM, responsible for technology and platform directives across all of Watson Health genomics, pharmacology, oncology, imaging, payer and provider systems as it pertains specifically to artificial intelligence based technologies. Currently, Ted’s interest are focused primarily on Artificial Intelligence and Agent-Based Systems as they are applied within Distributed Computing. From startups to being responsible for C-Level P&L at publicly traded corporations Ted has held architect positions at both Apple and Microsoft and held instrumental roles in several start-ups, including most recently where he was Co-Founder and CTO of PokitDok Inc. acquired by Change Health in 2018. He was also with digidesign (IPO and acquired by Avid), Crystal River Engineering (acquired by Aureal Seminconductor), VP of R&D at MongoMusic (acquired by Microsoft) and Co-Founder and CTO of BeliefNetworks (acquired by Benefitfocus). He was also the CTO of Spatializer Audio Labs (NASDAQ: SPAZ), a company specializing in digital signal processing solutions. He is on the IAB for the University of South Carolina Computer Science Department as well as the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning at the University of Tennessee. He also serves on the Clemson University Restoration Institute Executive Advisory Board for the Zucker Family Graduate Education Center. Ted has published numerous articles in leading technical magazines and holds several patents in the areas of blockchain, semantics, machine learning, signal processing and signal protection. He has also held a Top Secret Security Clearance. He is also a member of the ACM and IEEE.
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