Why Clinicians are Key to Successful Healthcare Innovation | Dr. Derrick Khor

The importance of involving clinicians in digital innovation is something we hear often in the medical AI community, but for Derrick - who’s a practicing NHS oncologist- it’s a mission. Over the past two years Derrick has amassed more than 20,000 followers on LinkedIn, becoming renowned for stimulating progressive discussion around digital innovation in healthcare. Atop this, he is the founder of Adopt-A-Doc, a social enterprise which serves to connect healthtech businesses with healthcare professionals in the UK. From identifying genuine healthtech innovators to understanding the complex reality of data infrastructure challenges, this discussion peels back the layers of what's really happening on the frontlines of medical AI adoption. Derrick offers candid insights into why so many health tech startups fail when trying to enter the healthcare space and what it takes to succeed.

Discussion Points:

Links to video chapters. The first three points are covered in the introduction.

• The biggest challenges integrating AI into healthcare— non-clinical founders build good working tools but paradoxically increase workload for clinicians. Opacity of healthcare from the outside.
• Importance of stakeholder engagement- building what healthcare professionals actually need
• Barriers to engagement between founders and healthcare professionals— 1) Communication, 2) Trust, 3) Liability
• Picking through the noise of founders and innovations— attitudes towards regulations and responsiveness to feedback. Do they value clinicians' time.
• The challenges of AI in healthcare innovation— siloes, interoperability, meaningful outputs, regulation
• What can the healthcare system do to help innovators — Platforms, Policies, People, and Pounds. Secure data environments (Roche & Great Ormond Street Hospital)
• Progress in AI and where the UK sits on the global stage
• Cost, reimbursement, and value proposition— NHS funding challenges
• The role of private sector
• Lessons learned (Skin Analytics)— surviving long, partnering with the NHS, raising money, and taking regulation seriously
• Derrick’s perspective of oncology
• Innovation and reality on the ground
• What can we learn from other ecosystems— NHS AI marketplace and equitable data access
• Education— how much should healthcare professionals know about AI & innovations
• Growing a LinkedIn community
• Innovation in Glasgow— a place to watch
• AI Integration— Newtons Tree & Haris Shuaib
• What to be excited about and what needs to change