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Why is innovation in healthcare so difficult?
Professor Anand Bhardwaj is a recent PhD graduate from McGill University. His dissertation documented the work of two major hospitals as they attempted to implement AI into their administrative processes. The goal was for the AI to efficiently schedule operating room times – a critical function that directly affects patient care. After months of work, the hospitals did not succeed in building the AI scheduler. But that doesn’t mean they failed. Bhardwaj joins us to explain why.
Dr. Pant Pai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University. She’s also a Principal Investigator for the Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre. She also joins today’s show to explain why digital health innovation is so difficult, and what it would take to succeed.
Let’s delve into it.
Eric Dicaire, Delve’s Managing Editor, hosts this episode.
// LINKS
Dr. Bhardwaj’s PhD dissertation (https://research.cbs.dk/en/publications/ai-and-or-scheduling-entangling-knowledge-and-artificial-intellig/)
Dr. Bhardwaj’s profile (https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments/department-digitalisation/anand-bhardwaj)
Dr. Pant Pai’s profile (https://www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-occh/nitika-pai)
// MORE FROM DELVE
Healthcare innovation requires courage and slack (https://delve.mcgill.ca/listen/healthcare-innovation-requires-courage-and-slack/)
How simple management practices can save lives (https://delve.mcgill.ca/listen/how-simple-management-practices-can-save-lives/)
For AI to reshape radiology, policymakers need to act (https://delve.mcgill.ca/read/for-ai-to-reshape-radiology-policymakers-need-to-act/)
// CREDITS
Delve is the official thought leadership platform for the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Eric Dicaire, Delve’s managing editor, hosts this episode. Professor Saku Mantere is Delve’s editor-in-chief.
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