Giles Colclough Grail Dorling Farhad Riahi Saira Ghafur Aziz Sheikh
This paper argues for the need to harness specialized health experts to meet the need of emerging digitized software and technologies.
Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly disrupting many industries. In healthcare, we are just beginning to realize the possible opportunities that will transform service provision in the next decade. We see a fully data-enabled health system facilitating five critical drivers of health system performance: prediction, prevention, personalization, participation and productivity. The WISH report sets out a path of increasing data-enablement that health systems might follow, with case studies outlining how individual systems have addressed some of the challenges involved.
Professor Aziz Sheikh is Director of the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His interests include studying asthma and health inequalities.