At the Speed of Life: Faster and safer medical innovations

With guests speaker Professor John Fraser.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged healthcare systems worldwide and tested the medical industry’s capacity to innovate to the limit.

Across all areas of health, technologies from artificial intelligence to 3D printing, genomics and robotics are advancing exponentially, shaping the future of medicine. Everything in the medical industry is now changing, from how patients consult their doctors, to data and analytics-enabled continuous care, to how hospitals and doctors use tools and share information.

This panel allows us to discuss what lessons have been learned in the process on how to accelerate medical innovations while ensuring their safety. Furthermore, we will investigate what implications this will have for the health challenges of the future.

This World Majlis session seeks to answer these uniquely topical questions by convening thought leaders, visionaries and changemakers for a lively discussion. ___

Professor John Fraser is the Director of the Critical Care Research Group at The Prince Charles Hospital and University of Queensland in Brisbane, and Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital. John’s extensive global network has also helped facilitate the birth of the COVID Consortium, the largest global critical care community using artificial intelligence with colleagues from 52 countries around the world during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Working with over 400 world leading hospitals across the globe, John has brought in leaders in AI, Amazon and IBM to accelerate data ingestion updating in real time to allow decision support at the bedside. Prof Fraser continues to push at the boundaries of medicine, science and technology, all in the pursuit of ensuring that critically ill patients across the world have every opportunity to thrive – not just survive.