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SUMMARY:Welcome to the New Era of Digital Health: Power\, Politics and the
  Fight for Justice in the Age of AI
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DESCRIPTION:Innovative digital technologies\, such as AI\, hold significan
 t promise to further the global attainment of health and well-being. Such 
 technologies could provide access to professional and personalized care at
  speed\, scale and low-cost. However\, in this field\, the values\, intere
 sts and ultimate goals of regulators\, scientists\, tech providers\, and c
 ivic society (including patients) often clash and collide. The imaginaries
 \, market-led promises and narratives that are circulated seem compelling:
  better public health\, transformative innovation\, and the seamless integ
 ration of digital tools and technologies with healthcare systems\, practic
 es and people. Yet\, the realities that we end up with are often very diff
 erent: public-private partnerships that are choreographed in favour of Big
  Tech and their exploitative business models\; the implementation of power
 ful\, yet untested and unstable AI models into real-life applications\; an
 d mounting justice issues that are rippling across society\, whereby the m
 ost vulnerable are disproportionately affected by digital technologies\, d
 ata and AI. This guest lecture explores the complexities\, entanglements a
 nd crossroads at which digital health as a field now lives and stands. It 
 also asks the question - and hopefully also provides some answers - of how
  we can address the issue of asymmetric power and market politics\, and ho
 w we can take up the fight for justice to preserve not just the very essen
 ce of healthcare but also unlock the power of digital technologies for the
  greater good.\nThis talk is part of the Technological Innovation and Digi
 tal Health course\, which forms part of the Translational Health Sciences 
 programme. This event is free and open to all.\n\nNicole Gross is an Assoc
 iate Professor in Business & Society at the National College of Ireland. H
 er research interests sit in between organization studies\, digital tech m
 arkets and the ‘greater good’ in the context of healthcare. She is par
 ticularly interested how business models and markets work\, if/how market 
 trajectories can be changed and what needs to be done to deliver public va
 lue in digital healthcare. Nicole is an active member of various research 
 groups (e.g.\, https://misfires.ucd.ie/) and collaborates with Irish as we
 ll as European advocacy groups on issues related to AI and health (e.g.\, 
 https://healthai.haiweb.org/the-members/). Nicole has been awarded funding
  from Research Ireland for her recent work on generative AI in healthcare 
 and her research has been widely published in outlets such as Organization
  Studies\, Big Data & Society\, Business & Society\, Organization\, Sociol
 ogy of Health & Illness\, AI &Ethics\, Journal of Medical Ethics\, BMJ\, H
 ealth Policy & Technology\, and Marketing Theory. Nicole tweets under @tec
 h_spaces.
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SPEAKER:Prof Nicole Gross (National College of Ireland)
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