Artificial intelligence improving healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is predicted to change the nature of healthcare, says Professor Enrico Coiera, Health Informatics expert and Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at Macquarie University. Australia has a once-in-a-generation chance to transform its healthcare if we spend some of the just-announced Medical Research Future Fund’s $240 million for Frontier Science on Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Trained in medicine with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Professor Coiera is Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University, Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, and Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research in Digital Health. With a research background in industry and academia, he has a strong international research reputation for his work on decision support and communication processes in biomedicine.
Coiera has refocussed the Centre for Health Informatics cross-centre research program on the development and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The goal is to develop AI-enabled assistants for clinicians and consumers in a decade-long research program. Opportunities are available for research scientists with experience in AI to join the team.
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Content owner: Australian Institute of Health Innovation Last updated: 19 Oct 2018 11:01am