Its Just a Matter of Time Before the Use of AI in Healthcare Becomes Commonplace – Dr. Pooja Rao

Abstract

A physician turned data scientist, Dr. Pooja Rao currently heads research and
development at Qure.ai, a healthcare-AI company that she co-founded in 2016
to create deep learning technology that interprets medical images. She has
worked to bring machine learning techniques to healthcare through industry
applications and published research across deep learning, bioinformatics,
and genomics. Pooja graduated from medical school in Pune, India where
she briefly practiced medicine, before earning a PhD in Neuroscience at the
Max Planck Research School, Göttingen.
In an exclusive interview to The Indian Practitioner, Dr. Pooja Rao talks
about the prospects and challenges concerning Artificial Intelligence in
Indian healthcare.