ANA TERESA FREITAS
CSE Department, INESC-ID/IST Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Senior research member (PI) at the Information and Decision Support Systems Group/INESC-ID
Monday, 19 Sept. | 16:30 – 17:30h
Personalized medicine in the era of artificial intelligence
Like in many other industries, the healthcare sector routinely generates vast amounts of data from many different sources ranging from biochemical exams, electronic medical records, vital signs, patient-reported outcomes, health surveys, clinical trials, insurance claims, administrative data, and more recently omics. These days, large volumes of data associated with the new technologies of artificial intelligence are promising to create the foundations for a new paradigm of medicine focused on the individuality of each person.
In this talk I will discuss different approaches that are being tested in EU hospitals with the goal to transform healthcare from reactive disease care to care that is patient or person-centered and focused on disease prevention. A special focus will be given to the use of polygenic risk scoring models in the implementation of genetic panels that can support health professionals in disease prevention. Additionally, I will discuss how the field of pharmacogenomics is being able to make its way from research to clinical practice, which could become, in the short term, the first pillar of the democratization of preventive and personalized medicine.
Since artificial intelligence is becoming a disruptive technology in the healthcare sector, it is also crucial to address the ethical and legal challenges imposed by this new technological advance.
