For three days, Parc Taulí has become the meeting point for health professionals, research staff and technology experts, with two events to bring the potential of artificial intelligence to the health sector from a practical, educational and innovative perspective.
Between the development of a solution based on artificial intelligence (AI) and its actual application in clinical practice, there is a complex process that still raises numerous unknowns. Some of them have been put on the table in the Taulí Health Artificial Intelligence Week, an initiative that, for the second consecutive year, has turned Parc Taulí into a meeting space to analyze the present and future of AI applied to health.
For three days, health professionals, research personnel and key agents in the sector shared knowledge and experiences with a common objective: understand how AI can generate a real and safe impact on the healthcare systemThe week was structured through two complementary activities: the Taulí Health Artificial Intelligence Symposium (THAIS) i Artificial Intelligence in Action (AI in Action).
The benchmark symposium on artificial intelligence in health
On June 16th and 17th, the fifth edition of the Taulí Health Artificial Intelligence Symposium (THAIS), a landmark event that explores the impact and applications of this technology in the healthcare sector. Through presentations, round tables and practical cases, the symposium offers a Updated review of the most current topics in AI in health by top experts.
At the opening, the co-director of the symposium, Jose Ibeas, highlighted the value of THAIS as a space to promote the exchange of knowledge between professionals from different disciplines: “THAIS is a fantastic opportunity to generate new connections and be the starting point for future collaborations.”
An idea thatAnna Ullastres, scientific coordinator of the I3PT, fully agrees: "Conferences like THAIS are necessary to share experiences, identify barriers and collectively move towards an implementation of AI that brings real value to clinical practice and people's health."
The sessions addressed aspects such as data quality and governance, clinical validation of models, their integration into healthcare circuits, ethical and regulatory challenges, as well as the need to understand how far this technology can go and how to prepare the system to incorporate it safely and effectively.
The symposium, which is also directed by Remo Suppi and Dolores Rexach, from the Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Department of the UAB School of Engineering, is promoted by the Mixed Unit of the Clinical, Interventional and Computational Nephrology research group (CICN) of the Parc Taulí Research and Innovation Institute (I3PT) and the High Performance Computing for Efficient Applications and Simulation (HPC4EAS) group of the UAB School of Engineering.
AI in Action: real experiences to bring AI closer to healthcare practice
The week ended with the celebration of theArtificial Intelligence in Action (AI in Action), a day that focused on one of the great challenges of innovation in health: how to bring AI to healthcare practice.
In this second edition, they have been presented AI-based projects that are already in advanced stages of development and are working to integrate into healthcare environmentsIts leaders, together with the partners of innovation that accompany them, have shared the journey necessary to transform an idea into a solution applicable to the healthcare system.
The sessions have allowed us to address the main challenges of this process, such as clinical validation, integration into professionals' workflows, regulation, technology transfer and acceptance by healthcare teams.
For the head of the I3PT Innovation Unit, Martin Leon, the day "is especially enriching because it allows you to learn first-hand about the path that different projects have followed and understand the real obstacles they have had to face to transform an idea into a viable solution for the healthcare system."
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