Dr Alan Karthikesalingam

How technology is changing the future of healthcare

To “intervene earlier and prevent folks from getting sick before they do” is the grand hope of Dr Alan Karthikesalingam, a surgeon scientist and research lead at Google Health UK. His aspirational vision “may take a long time”, he conceded.

As part of the RTS Digital Convention 2020, he was in conversation with Professor Lord (Ara) Darzi, President of the British Science Association. The two surgeons quickly set the tone as they discussed the difficulties confronting them during the pandemic.

Google - technology that can help health outcomes

Professor Lord Ara Darzi, President of the British Science Association, spoke to Dr Alan Karthikesalingam, Research Lead at Google Health UK, in a fascinating encounter highlighting the work that Google has been doing since the spring in the fight against Covid-19.  

With so much fake news concerning the pandemic available on the internet, Google was determined to disseminate reliable facts relating to coronavirus and how it presents and the way it is spread.   

In conversation with Professor Lord Ara Darzi and Dr Alan Karthikesalingam | RTS Digital Convention 2020

Professor Lord Ara Darzi, President of the British Science Association, joins Dr Alan Karthikesalingam, Research Lead at Google Health UK, in conversation as part of the RTS Digital Convention 2020.

Professor Lord Ara Darzi and Dr Alan Karthikesalingam discuss how Artificial Intelligence is being pioneered in healthcare, extraordinary technological advances, human behaviour and the societal impacts of these.