This past April, several UPMC physicians attended and participated in the Top of Mind Summit: Digital Health. This invite-only event, organized by UPMC Enterprises and the Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC, brought together more than 70 thought leaders and innovative health care technology experts to discuss the most pressing issues in health care.
Discussion focused on key issues for health care leaders such as the role of AI, gaps in women’s health, technology disruption, and investment funding, plus a series of smaller group roundtable sessions on pharmacy innovation, workforce retention and growth, telemedicine opportunities, and driving behavioral change with technology.
Oscar Marroquin, MD, Senior Vice President of UPMC and President of the UPMC Physician Services Division, along with Shivdev Rao, MD, UPMC cardiologist and CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge, kicked off the Summit with a powerful and thought-provoking keynote discussion surrounding AI solutions in health care. Dr. Marroquin and Dr. Rao focused on the essential role trust must play between all stakeholders — developers, clinical providers, end-user patients — in integrating AI tools within health care systems and delivery networks.
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Suresh Mulukutla, MD, Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer of UPMC, joined digital health experts from Nicklaus Children’s Health System, Optum, Verily, and Astrata Inc., to discuss using AI in clinical decision support, predictive modeling for disease progression and risk assessment, and the development of metrics to evaluate specialist performance against predetermined quality and fiscal benchmarks.
Jennifer Berliner, MD, Director of Clinician Well-Being at UPMC, served as moderator for the "Workforce Retention and Growth" session. This roundtable examined the current challenges and possible strategies to address workforce shortages in the health care sector. Read more about what was discussed in the entire roundtable session.
To gain additional exclusive insight from this invite-only event, download the full Top of Mind Summit: Digital Health recap report here.
The Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC also produced a separate white paper summarizing four roundtable sessions on telemedicine, digital tools and behavior change, pharmacy innovation, and workforce issues. The white paper, which includes key takeaways, a summary, and list of participants from each roundtable, is available for download.
You can also listen to a new UPMC Enterprises' podcast episode featuring Gretchen Mendoza, Vice President at UPMC Enterprises, who leads a conversation between Erich S. Huang, MD, PhD, Head of Clinical Informatics at Verily, and Ellen Beckjord, PhD, Vice President of Population Health and Clinical Optimization at UPMC Health Plan about the most promising digital tools for improving the health of people with chronic health conditions here.
