AI in Healthcare

EconAlliance’s mid-July Healthcare Workforce Forum focused on workforce development in the emerging AI operating environment. Nearly 100 attendees heard featured presentations on “AI in Healthcare” by two experts, with a panel of local healthcare educators discussing the new AI environment and its workforce impacts.

Dan Chow, MD, MBA and Director of Advanced Analytics in AI, UCI Institute for Precision Health (pictured, right), spoke on AI in Healthcare: Is there Evidence for Adopting? His complete presentation can be found in the EconAlliance Report Library on this site.

Healthcare Forum – An Intelligent Approach
Healthcare Forum – An Intelligent Approach

A second keynote - AI for Medicine: Progress, Promises and Limitations – was presented by Michael Pazzani, PhD, Distinguished Principal Scientist, Information Sciences Institute and Dir, AI Research for USC Health Center (pictured, left).

The Forum’s panel topic, Building the Healthcare Workforce of the Future – A Regional Perspective was moderated by Mark Allen, COO, Dignity Health

This session included as panelists Ted Wendel, President, Arizona and California Campuses; A.T. Still University; Thomas Lamica, Dean, Academic Affairs, Allan Hancock College; and Elaine Webber, Principal, Lompoc Adult School & Career Center.

Healthcare Forum – An Intelligent Approach
Pictured: Dr. Dan Chow (center) with Katie Gorndt and Mark Allen.

This forum event was planned by the EconAlliance Healthcare Employer Initiative Team with co-leads Mark Allen of Dignity Health and Debbie Alonzo, Director of Human Resources for Lompoc Valley Medical Center. Forum emcee for the program was Katie Gorndt, VP/Director of Nursing, Santa Ynez Valley (SYV) Cottage Hospital.

Thank you, Sponsors!

Key sponsors included Allan Hancock College, A.T. Still University, Dignity Health, Lompoc Valley Medical Center, and SYV Cottage Hospital.