Karandeep Singh, MD, spearheads a strategic approach to implementing AI for enhancing patient care and clinician well-being.
This article is part of AI BEYOND the Hype - March/April 2024 COVER story.
The movement toward using artificial intelligence is well underway at UC San Diego Health. Karandeep Singh, MD, now is tasked with bringing some order to its expanded use within the organization.
That’s a bit of a challenge for Singh, a nephrologist who completed his internal medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center. That’s because the AI “cat” is already out of the bag at UC San Diego Health, which has several AI-based initiatives in progress.
He steps into a new role of chief health AI officer at the three-hospital academic health system of the University of California San Diego. He comes to the position after playing lead roles at the University of Michigan Health, from where he was recruited.
Singh is beginning an investigatory process to plot a course to use AI to meet the future demands that healthcare systems will face. “We’re trying to measure things and see how well they’re working,” he says. “What’s the current state and then, honestly thinking a little bit further ahead from a strategy standpoint, how is healthcare going to be delivered in 2025 and 2030? And what are the actual problems we need to solve for us to get there?”
The questions Singh are facing represent those that the industry at large will need to resolve to gain the potential benefits that advanced information technologies can provide to help it address staffing shortages, physician and patient experience, and improvements in efficiency and quality.
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