E162: Building the Infrastructure Layer between Hospitals and AI Integration - Haris Shuaib (Founder + CEO at Newton's Tree & Head of CSC at GSTT)

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In this week’s episode Haris shares his journey from physicist to building an enterprise-wide AI Platform for hospitals to buy, deploy and monitor AI applications all while helping the NHS workforce get up to speed with digital innovation + transformation. 

 

We discussed:

🔬 The career of a physicist  
🧠 Developing an algorithm for hypoxic ischaemic injuries in newborns  
🌳 The origin story of Newton’s Tree  
🤖 Integrating and automating AI tools into clinical workflows  
🔗 The challenges of interoperability and systems ‘talking’ + ‘understanding’  
📊 The importance of measuring impact and evidence generation for AI tools  
🏗️ Building the infrastructure layer between hospitals and AI  
🎮 The cheat code for setting up Newton’s Tree  
📐 The three dimensions of medical AI (How difficult is it to Build, Deploy and Prove Value?)  
📈 Which part of the curve is the workforce on the adoption of AI?  
🏥 The problems of procurement in the NHS and difficulty switching vendors  
⚖️ The importance of remaining a vendor-neutral AI platform  
🚀 How to differentiate yourself as a founder building medical AI

Haris Shuaib is Founder and CEO of Newton’s Tree. He is also a Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of the Clinical Scientific Computing section at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS FT. He is Director of the Fellowships in Clinical Artificial Intelligence, the world’s-first clinical training programme for healthcare professionals to develop practical AI skills. 

 

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