AFHTO 2024 Closing Plenary- Empowering Primary Care Teams: The AI Advantage

Date: Friday, October 25, 2024
Time: 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM

Empowering Primary Care Teams: The AI Advantage

This talk will review key milestones that led to today's "AI Hype", describe the tasks that AI can currently support in a primary care context, and propose outcomes that effective AI use could enhance. Examples of AI tools ranging from AI scribes to alleviate administrative burdens to remote patient monitoring and support for treatment adherence between appointments, will be used to illustrate these points. Attendees are encouraged to dream big about what is possible and meaningful for their teams and care contexts. 

Additionally, this talk will discuss what is necessary for positive and equitable advancements in AI for primary care development and deployment. The focus will be on actionable steps that health system leaders and care providers can take to prepare or continue to harness AI in ways that support their patients, teams, and systems.

Dr. Jaky Kueper  Dr. Jacqueline (Jaky) Kueper is a Sr. Research Epidemiologist with the Digital Trials Center, Scripps Research Translational Institute, and a NAPCRG Phillips Futures Fellow. Previously, she completed the first combined PhD in Epidemiology and Computer Science at Western University, where her research on artificial intelligence (AI) for primary care was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal, and she served as the inaugural CFPC-AMS TechForward Fellow at the College of Family Physicians of Canada, focusing on AI for compassionate care and family medicine.    In general, Jaky’s work focuses on integrating epidemiology and machine learning to harness value from diverse datasets and to develop and evaluate AI tools, with the overarching goal to support digital advancements that will have a positive, equitable impact on health and wellbeing.

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