Title: Transformational Opportunities for Healthcare enabled by Information Technology
Speaker: Manish Gupta, Xerox Research
Abstract:
The healthcare industry across the world sees a clear need to contain
rapidly rising costs while improving the quality of healthcare. Emerging
markets like India face an additional challenge of an acute shortage of
qualified doctors and additional healthcare staff. Information
technology can enable a dramatic transformation of the industry through
a shift from reactive treatment to proactive action across different
tiers of the healthcare system, including hospitals and primary
healthcare centers, extensions to home monitoring and care, and also
wellness programs that lead to healthier lives. We present examples
across the spectrum of healthcare services. We show a state-of-the-art
machine learning technique to predict a kind of serious complication,
namely, acute hypotensive episodes for patients in an intensive care
unit (ICU). We then show how analytics over electronic medical records
can improve the accuracy in predicting the probability of a patient
requiring ICU admission, which can enable a hospital to take proactive
action before the patient turns serious. We describe another technique
to support assessment of strokes, which exemplifies how information
technology can be applied to facilitate triage and greater shift towards
primary healthcare centers. Finally, we present preliminary work that
shows the ability to non-invasively measure, through cameras, body
vitals such as respiration and heart rate, and also to diagnose diseases
such as breast cancer and atrial fibrillation (a form of cardiac
arrhythmia). We describe outstanding challenges, related to both
information technology and business model, which need to be overcome to
achieve the outlined vision of transformational impact.
Bio:
Dr. Manish Gupta is Vice President at Xerox Corporation and Director of
Xerox Research Centre in India. Previously, Manish has served as
Managing Director, Technology Division at Goldman Sachs India, and has
held various leadership positions with IBM, including that of Director,
IBM Research - India and Chief Technologist, IBM India/South Asia. From
2001 to 2006, he served as a Senior Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he led the team
developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM was
awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene by
US President Barack Obama in 2009. Manish holds a B.Tech. degree in
Computer Science from IIT Delhi, a Masters degree from the Ohio State
University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign. He has co-authored about 75 papers, with more than 5,500
citations in Google Scholar in the areas of high-performance computing,
compilers, and virtual machine optimizations, and has been granted 19 US
patents. While at IBM, Manish received an Outstanding Innovation Award,
two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and the Lou Gerstner Team
Award for Client Excellence. Manish is an ACM Fellow and a recipient of
a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Delhi.