AI, Big Data, and the Future of Healthcare with Dr. Amol Verma and Nicole Yada

How is GEMINI using AI to turn routine hospital records into tools for national healthcare reform? In this episode we discuss how AI and health data can be harnessed to improve healthcare and how we ensure these tools are used responsibly.  Amol Verma is a physician and scientist in General Internal Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Temerty Professor of AI Research and Education in Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a health services researcher, studying and improving hospital care using electronic clinical data. Dr. Verma co-founded and co-leads GEMINI, Canada’s largest hospital clinical data research network, which is collecting data from >35 hospitals in Ontario. He also co-founded and co-leads VITAL, a multi-provincial clinical data platform. Dr. Verma completed medical training at the University of Toronto, a Masters degree at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and research fellowships through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian Frailty Network, and AMS Healthcare. He served on the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Health Data Sharing, is a Provincial Clinical Lead for Quality Improvement in General Internal Medicine with Ontario Health, and is the Chair of the Researcher Council and a Board Member of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and AMS Healthcare. He received the 2022 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Early Career Leadership Award, the 2022 Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s early career Trailblazer Award in Population and Public Health Research, and the 2023 Canadian Society of Internal Medicine’s New Investigator Award.Nicole Yada is the Director of the VITAL Platform at GEMINI. Prior to joining the GEMINI team, Nicole was the inaugural Program Director for the Accelerating Clinical Trials Consortium and oversaw business development for ICES. She holds a master's degree in health informatics from McMaster University and is completing her PhD in Health Services Research at the University of Toronto. Ms. Yada trained as a graphic designer in Tokyo, Japan and has a background in marketing and research journalism. Research you heard aboutCharacterizing medical patients with delirium: A cohort study comparing ICD-10 codes and a validated chart review method - PubMedLearn more about GEMINIICES | New data partnership to expand insights on hospital care in Ontariohttps://geminimedicine.ca/ EPISODE CREDITS:Produced, edited and mixed by Will Mcintyre, Richard Villeneuve and Pop Up PodcastingArtwork designed by Stella-Luna HaMusic licensed through Melodie MusicLINKS:Be sure to follow and tag ICES on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. To find out more about our organization, visit us at ices.on.ca