To provide safe healthcare – characterized by the provision of high quality, continuous and seamless care – is an expectation of patients, healthcare providers, and policy makers. With the ever increasing pool of knowledge accumulated in healthcare, a large quantity of information is being produced, processed, and shared. Thus, the use of information technology has become indispensable in supporting clinical decision making for healthcare providers as well as for the patients themselves. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been on the agenda for many year, and now, we see an increased interest in learning more about what AI is, how it is developed, and its potential and implications for our society. The adoption of AI and its implications for education and research are widely debated in many sectors of the society. One of the applications is Machine Learning, which is a widely used term; however, our understanding of its process and application in healthcare is limited.
In this seminar, we will first present an overview of the applications of AI and the status of the field before introducing the possibilities and challenges of AI in health- and nursing care. We will also analyze the reasons to trust or distrust AI. Furthermore, we will take a critical approach to identify implications for professionals and point out some lessons for future developments.
It is our pleasure to present Paulina Sockolow DrPH, MBA, MS who is a public health informatician to give an introduction on the topic. Thereafter Elin Børøsund, PhD, Oslo University Hospital and Kostas Antypas, PhD, SINTEF will lead the discussion by emphasizing the implications of AI for education and research. Ragnhild Hellesø, Dr.Polit. UiO will chair the seminar.
Dr. Paulina Sockolow has been trained in the fields of health informatics, and health policy and management as a National Library of Medicine/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Informatics Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Sockolow’s program of research focuses on the use of health information systems and their data to improve the health of people who are vulnerable or reside in under-resourced communities. She has been awarded US federal grants to examine health information technology support for nurses during the delivery of care to older people across the transition in care and in home health care. Her current research includes the evaluation of predictive risk software to prioritize initial home health care visits.
Kostas Antypas is a Research Manager at SINTEF Digital.
Elin Børøsund is a Senior Researcher and Head of Research and Education at the Department of Digital Health Research at Oslo University Hospital.
Ragnhild Hellesø is a Professor and Head of the Department of Public Health Science. Her research interest is digitalization in health care in general and in elderly care in particular.
Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration is therefore required. Deadline for registration is June 5, 2023.
The Zoom link for the seminar will be sent out to the registered digital participants by email one day before the seminar.
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