Episode 3 · International

Bridging the gap: the last mile of healthcare

Bilal Mateen · Executive Director, Digital Square at PATH (now Chief AI Officer at PATH)

May 2024 · 57MIN 41SEC

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About this episode

How do we meaningfully bridge policy and real impact at the last mile of healthcare? A conversation on digital health challenges and successes in underserved communities - covering safety, regulation, data infrastructure, community health workers, and the role of AI and large language models.

Last Mile Regulation AI Health Data Digital Public Goods

“We want to be the impetus or the catalyst for change; I don't think we need to be the ones doing everything everywhere.”
Bilal Mateen

What we cover

01Digital public goods: how digital solutions can be accessible public goods
02Health data poverty and its effect on global health equity
03The importance of strong data infrastructure
04Regulatory challenges and the work that still needs to be done
05AI and large language models to improve healthcare outcomes

About the guest

Bilal Mateen

Executive Director, Digital Square at PATH (now Chief AI Officer at PATH)

Dr Bilal Mateen is the Executive Director of Digital Square at PATH. A physician by training, he has an academic interest in health-related applications of data science and machine learning. He holds an honorary professorial appointment at University College London and a clinical data science fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute — the UK's national institute for data science and AI. He served as the clinical technology lead and senior manager for digital technology at the Wellcome Trust, where his team worked on funding digital public goods and the software infrastructure that underpins the science to address three key health challenges: mental health, the impacts of climate change on human health, and emerging and escalating infectious diseases.

Chapters

00:00Introduction and background

05:06Digital public goods

07:04How health data poverty plays out

08:59Reaching the last mile of healthcare

15:47AI and large language models in healthcare

29:00Investing in data science ecosystems and regulatory frameworks

32:59More global representation in regulation

37:03Considering local nuances in AI deployment

39:12Divergent approaches to regulating LLMs

45:28Regulation of LLMs as medical devices

48:40Recommendations to innovators about healthcare regulation

Transcript

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