How Emory's Alistair Erskine Is Leveraging AI to Address Aging Population Challenges and Healthcare Workforce Shortages
When Alistair Erskine, Chief Information and Digital Officer for Emory Healthcare and the Vice President for Digital Health at Emory University, sought to address issues plaguing the healthcare industry, he knew he had to consider two major factors: the workforce shortage brought on by the Covid pandemic and America's aging population. By implementing AI solutions such as ambient listening and AI cameras, hospital staff gained ways of optimizing operations and ensuring patients were receiving the care and attention they required to get better on a shorter timeline than ever before.