David Wortley

CEO & Founder of 360in360 Immersive Experiences, United Kingdom

Title: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DIGITAL PREVENTATIVE HEALTHCARE

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Biography

David Wortley is CEO & Founder of 360in360 Immersive Experiences and a VP of the International Society of Digital Medicine (ISDM). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce and a global thought leader and innovator on enabling technologies for health, education and the environment. He is on the editorial board of the Digital Medicine Journal. He is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University.

As the Founding Director of the Serious Games Institute (SGI) at Coventry University, his team established an International Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Innovation in the field of serious games and immersive technologies for a wide range of applications. His areas of special interest are technologies for preventative healthcare, collaboration, virtual reality and interactive rich media knowledge sharing. He a professional virtual event facilitator, webinar host and publisher.

Abstract

Abstract

Non-Communicative Diseases (NCDs) present one of the greatest challenges to the future of public health. Most NCDs such as Diabetes, Dementia, Cancer and Cardio-Vascular diseases are lifetsyle related. This presents particular problems for elderly care because improvements in longevity over the last 50 years have meant that people are living beyond retirement age, often in poor health, and present a growing cost burden at a time when the percentage of working population is falling. This combination is putting pressure on the future sustainability of public health services.

Enabling technologies such as Artificial Intelligence combined with increasingly sophisticated consumer wearable technologies has the potential to support preventative healthcare by facilitating behaviour change, detecting problems early, providing rich medical history data and encouraging personal responsibility for health. This presentation focuses on the application of digital technologies, including AI, for preventative healthcare and explores some of the challenges and opportunities this presents for the future of Healthcare and the implications for the Nursing Profession.