Making Health AI Innovations Worth It

Health AI products need more than technical capability to succeed in clinical settings. This session brings together hospital and evaluation perspectives on working with AI companies, with practical lessons for startups developing technologies for health services.

What you’ll explore

Drawing on case studies, Professor Peter Steel and Dr Kit Huckvale will discuss:

• What hospitals look for in AI partners
• The considerations involved in implementing new AI technologies
• How clinical needs and workflows can shape product development
• Building evidence to support a first clinical partnership
• Demonstrating value to health services and navigating organisational requirements
• Supporting sustained use of AI in everyday clinical practice

Speakers

• Professor Peter Steel — Chief Transformation Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital; Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health and Associate Dean of Digital Health & Informatics at the University of Melbourne.
• Dr Kit Huckvale — Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, University of Melbourne, and lead of The Validitron healthtech studio.

Location

This in-person session is at Melbourne Connect in Carlton.