Future of Health event

About the event

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the healthcare industry by enhancing diagnostics, personalising treatment plans, and streamlining healthcare processes and administrative tasks. Applications of AI promise enhanced patient care and operational efficiency but demand significant investments in technology, infrastructure and skilled personnel.

We invite you to attend UQ Future of Health Research Hub event on Wednesday 4 June. Hear from our presenters are they explore how healthcare organisations can evaluate the costs and benefits of AI.
 

Panel speakers

Dr Ritu Agarwal
Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor, John Hopkins University

Ritu Agarwal is the Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and Health at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She is also the founding co-director of the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence (CDHAI) Dr. Agarwal is an expert in the strategic use of information technology, digital transformation of healthcare, health analytics, and artificial intelligence applications in health. Prior to joining the Carey School, she was a Distinguished University Professor and the Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. She was also the Founding Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Smith School.

Professor Anandhi Bharadwaj
Goizueta Endowed Chair in Electronic Commerce and Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management, Emory University

Professor Bharadwaj joined Goizueta after completing her PhD in Management Information Systems with a minor in Computer Science, from Texas A&M University. She also holds an MBA and a BS degree in Mathematics. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Anandhi worked as an information systems consultant at NIIT, a worldwide IT consulting firm, and was responsible for IT systems development and executive training. Anandhi's research examines the adoption, use, and impact patterns associated with technological change. Her work has made impactful contributions in the areas of business value and impact of information technology, digital business strategies, healthcare technologies, and technology outsourcing. In her dissertation research, she proposed an artificial intelligence (AI) based architecture for dynamic scheduling based on an analysis of cardiac catheterizations in a large hospital in Texas. The hybrid system architecture combined opportunistic planning with reason maintenance. Anandhi previously served as the Vice Dean of Faculty and Research. She has also served as Department Editor for the IS track in Management Science, Senior Editor for Information Systems Research, and Associate Editor of MIS Quarterly and the Journal of AIS. Her research has been published in journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science Journal of MIS, Production and Operations Management, HBR, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Professor Xitong Guo
Professor of School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology

Xitong Guo is a professor of Information Systems and director of the eHealth Research Institute at the Harbin Institute of Technology. His research focuses on eHealth with special interests in healthcare data enabled service management for citizen wellness. He attended the Lindau 2011 Economics Nobel Laureates Meeting and is PI for the State Key Program and Outstanding Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His work has been published in MISQ, ISR, POM, JOM, JMIS, JAIS, EJIS, ACM TMIS, DSS, IJEC, ICIS, among other outlets. He received a Ph.D. in Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong jointly with a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and a Bachelor in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2005.

Professor Andrew Burton-Jones
Future of Health Research Hub Lead, The University of Queensland

Andrew has extensive experience teaching IT governance and control, systems analysis and design, and digital health. He undertakes research in three areas, his first area focuses on how effectively organisations use IT. This includes studying the effective use of electronic health records in health authorities. His second research area focused on improving methods to analyse and design IT systems, including examining ways to improve the specification of user requirements. His third research stream focuses on improving theories and methods used by researchers in the Information Systems discipline.

Moderator

Associate Professor Nicole Hartley
Future of Health Research Hub Lead, The University of Queensland

Associate Professor Nicole Hartley is the MBA Director at UQ Business School. Nicole's career as an academic has spanned 19 years at institutions in both Sydney and Queensland. She is an internationally recognised research academic in the field of services marketing and digital technology. Nicole's current research agenda focuses upon exploring customer perceptions in response to the advent of technology and various forms of disruption in the delivery of services, particularly healthcare.

The event will provide the perfect opportunity to hear from like-minded industry professionals and enjoy a complimentary hot breakfast.