MAS+ Workshop: AI for Healthcare and Medtech

AI is revolutionising Healthcare and Medtech, providing patients with innovative and hitherto unthinkable solutions while transforming industry operations. 

This workshop will equip you with key insights into AI's business impact, regulations and technology strategies.

Event details

  • Date: Saturday, 21 October 2023
  • Time: 09.15 to 17.45, including a sandwich lunch and coffee breaks
  • Venue: ETH Zurich, LEE building, E 101, Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zurich

Workshop objectives

Throughout the course of the workshop, you will:

  • explore the many new healthcare opportunities offered by AI;
  • examine the unique regulatory implications of deploying AI systems in a highly-regulated sector;
  • consider how technology can help accelerate AI adoption while solving some of the most salient regulatory issues.

Workshop programme

Case Study 1: Hospital Patient Re-Admission Prediction  

  • Predicting the future with classification algorithms 
  • Use cases to reduce the risk of patient re-admission 
  • Medical ML algorithms and medical software: regulatory framework   

Case Study 2: Connected Wearable Medical Devices

  • Connected architecture: from patient to doctor in real time via cloud 
  • Medical devices: regulatory framework 

Case Study 3: Predictive and Generative AI in Physicians’ Daily Life 

  • AI use cases supporting daily patient interactions 
  • Medical ontologies and real-time patient information retrieval 
  • Patient data: regulatory framework for privacy protection 

Case Study 4: Multi-Hospital Patient Data Sharing 

  • Improving diagnosis predictive performance: the case for sharing patient datasets 
  • Federated learning 
  • Patient data sharing: the regulatory challenges 

You will engage in short group work sessions and carry out exercises to encourage innovative thinking and applied learning.

While no prior expertise in data science or machine learning is necessary, those with a healthcare business background will benefit most from this workshop.

Speakers

Jérôme Zürcher

Professor Frank Stein

Chris Russ

Organisers

Jérôme Zürcher

Dr Bastian Bergmann

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