AI-Enabled Clinical Virtual Assistant – A HIMSS Technology Update

Bryan Cobb is the Partner Lead for the GE Healthcare - Roche partnership program in Acute Care. With GE Healthcare’s in vivo patient monitoring and Roche’s in vitro diagnostics expertise, the team is developing novel digital CDS tools, AI-derived cognitive agents, and predictive analytics that aim to help clinicians identify patient deterioration sooner while improving cognitive burden, patient outcomes, but most importantly, save lives. Dr. Cobb obtained a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed an American Board of Medical Genetics post-doctoral fellowship at NIH (National Human Genome Research Institute). He is a board-certified diplomat of the American College of Medical Genetics & Genomics.

Dr. Jeff Hersh is the Chief Medical Officer for GE Healthcare Systems. Dr. Hersh has over 30 years’ experience as a practicing physician and has been Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine. Previously, Dr. Hersh has held faculty appointments at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts, Tufts, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale, and others. Dr. Hersh holds a medical degree from the University of Miami and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Yale. Dr. Hersh has published and presented hundreds of articles and lectures. He holds multiple patents (including one in AI) and has been the PI of dozens of studies.