The Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce hosted its 5 th annual Health and Wellness forum on Thursday morning in Valencia to discuss how artificial intelligence was being applied to the health care field. “We’re really excited to partner with other members of the health care landscape,” said Dr. Chris Raigosa, of Kaiser Permanente, “which includes UCLA, USC Keck, and Henry Mayo to show how artificial intelligence is changing and innovating how we provide healthcare.
” Dr. Khang Nguyen from Kaiser Permanente was this year’s keynote speaker and spoke about how AI is transforming health care. Nguyen discussed how to make AI the “sixth person.
” The “sixth person” was described as someone who was reliable, impactful and helps their team out. “Artificial intelligence, sad to say, is not there yet to replace everything. We still need certain things,” said Nguyen.
Nguyen spoke about how AI could be used to adapt through health care challenges, potentially decrease clinical burnout, help predict care plans for targeted demographics, increase communications through patient and doctor, and help patients navigate what care they need. Nguyen said that Kaiser’s relationship with AI has allowed the health care it provides to be faster, more efficient, and repair the relationships between patient and doctor. Dr.
Eleazar Eskin, with UCLA, discussed how a team of researchers, including himself, used AI to transform how they collected and studied COVID-19 tests resu.