DERI Seminar with Henry Hunt

When: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Zoom

Speaker: Henry Hunt, Chief of Staff at HN

Zoom link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81148100921

Title: Beyond Theory: perspectives on the real-world deployment of Machine Learning algorithms in complex health systems

Abstract: As new opportunities arise for the application of machine-learning models in complex healthcare systems, so do the challenges facing start-ups and SME’s in pursuing these opportunities.

This seminar will explore key considerations from a start-up’s perspective in effectively integrating ML models into existing health system workflows and infrastructure. This includes perspectives on safe and effective Information Governance and compliance approaches, data discovery and technical access considerations, communicating data science concepts to the lay-person, as well as strategies for ensuring model interpretability, fairness, and robustness in real-world operational delivery.

Using data to drive a paradigm shift in how health systems allocate resource and deliver outcomes is imperative, but whether this can be achieved is not inevitable. Intentional and well-considered approaches to the challenges above are critical to safeguard - let alone improve - patient outcomes in today’s challenged health systems.

Bio: Henry is Chief of Staff at HN, an SME providing predictive analytics to (mostly public) health systems.

Specifically, HN develops and applies locally training machine learning models to routinely collected electronic patient data to identify patients at the onset of a rising health crisis. By identifying these patients, preventative healthcare resources can be allocated early and proactively at reduced cost, to improve health outcomes, save patients' lives and overcome health inequalities. HN’s journey began in 2016 with a 12,000-patient randomised clinical trial, which was published in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Prior to HN, Henry worked in management consulting, leading large scale, complex transformation programmes with the NHS in hospitals, ambulance services, and commissioner organisations.

 “HN is an award-winning company that uses AI to predict and prevent care need. Providing practical applications of population health management, going beyond simply identifying high-need patients to proactively intervening and supporting them to improve their health outcomes.”