Keynote
In challenging times, ensuring financial integrity and fairer distribution of services by reducing disparities are among the top priorities for social and health-care systems globally. To deliver services at population-scale, governments and healthcare agencies are increasingly automating aspects of policy rule processing – e.g., automating activitiessuch as checking citizens’ eligibility to services as computer code. The resulting code becomes the 'effective', de facto policy, and is what most citizens experience in their everyday lives.
Research Scientist and Manager - AI for Health and Social Care
IBM
http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/
Vanessa Lopez is a researcher scientist at IBM Research Ireland since 2012 and manager of the AI for Health and Social Care team. Her research interests are to investigate how technology can be made “smarter” to better understand human needs, and support us, as a society, to target complex problems.
