Name: Becton Dickinson CEO: AI is Transforming Healthcare
Uploaded: 2022-06-30
Duration: 4 min 49 s
Description: AI speeds up test results and tasks and improves productivity too.

AI speeds up test results and tasks and improves productivity too.

Becton Dickinson CEO: AI is Transforming Healthcare

Tech

tom you say that artificial intelligence is having a huge impact on improving health care. How is ai shaping the future of health care? We're seeing it transform laboratory testing as an example things that used to take three days to get a result of patients. Re utilizing AI to get them to patients in one day faster diagnosis faster treatment. We're utilizing it for example to improve detection of cervical cancer. Think about reading a pap smear. We now have imaging software and ai find the cancer cells much more sensitive than the human eye could find cancer cells that's improving outcomes. So those are just some examples of how we're using AI today and we're just getting started. We're in the very early phase. What would you say is the fast track when you talk about ai most people think technology of um automated machines or robots getting access to the data and helping um for clinicians take things off of their plate so that we can feed up the the action that they have to take to improve patient outcome. Not just sorting through data all the time. There's a tremendous amount of data available to physicians today. Think about if you're in an I. C. U. The average nurse has to deal with over 500 alarms per patient bed. It's a tremendous amount of information. Um We want to use ai to comb through that data and help t. Up to physicians and nurses. The important things that they have to take action on for patients rather than spending their time looking at screens. I understand that you are shifting into some new care settings. Moving beyond the hospital to surgery centers to retail setting settings even into patients homes. In what ways does Ai help you make this transition? We recently launched the first um smartphone based rapid test for Covid and it uses an Ai algorithm to actually interpret and read the test result. And we're taking that same technology now and we're going to allow people to test themselves for fluid home in the future or strep throat in the future. And that's all utilizing imaging algorithms to get a hospital quality result. But by yourself in your home we're just scratching the surface when it comes to enabling home home care. So what do you see in the future? Thanks to Ai we see for example. Um rather than spending time in an I. C. U. There's a whole shift of care of I. C. U. S. At home. Imagine remote patient monitoring infusion pumps being monitored from a central command. Much cheaper in the home than in the hospital. Um And where people would rather be at the end of the day where they can spend more time with their loved ones. All of that remote monitoring and evaluation of vital signs, blood being able to be self collected in your home rather than in a healthcare setting. All of that will be part of the future. And we're investing in all of those areas that I just mentioned to help enable that you know during the pandemic, we heard a lot about burnout and you say that aI can even help health care professionals do their job better and faster and reduce burnout. Talk to us about that burnout among clinicians is an extremely critical issue for society overall. Um and you've seen significant resignations, particularly among nurses, um so you've got less tenure, less experience more work than ever, hardest working people in the hospital nurses. And so the use of AI and technologies to help automate tasks to alleviate that burden, to help sort through huge amounts of data to tee up actions rather than having to sort through and synthesize it has a tremendous impact on reducing burden on clinicians and allowing them to operate at the upper end of their license. Right. Not not on the more mundane tasks that we can take off their plate. Tom you've already made a very significant investment in AI and yet you sound very positive enthusiastic about all of all of the good things that it brings to health care. What are your plans going forward? Do you see Doing more investments, adding more to your capabilities? We have 2000 software engineers and data scientists today, we partner with many organizations like Microsoft and Amazon as well happen to their aI capabilities that they have. And so we have multiple programs across the company focusing on that, I'd say a big theme of programs across our company are helping to improve productivity and remove burden from healthcare workers. And we see that as a tremendous opportunity as we look ahead and we're just getting started in that space, but we're gonna be a leader there.