Sir Ziauddin Hospital's Digital Evolution Is Fueled by AI
Group CIO Sadaf Sheikh on Technology Transformation and AI Push
Named after renowned educationist and philanthropist Sir Ziauddin Ahmed, the Sir Ziauddin Hospital has adopted a multidisciplinary approach. It offers a wide range of specialties such as cardiology, oncology, neurology, and more. The hospital operates across five locations in Pakistan and Dubai. With further expansion planned in the U.K. and Ireland, the hospital has strategically designed a data management plan and a three-year technology-driven transformation road map. This ambitious plan aims to position it alongside some of the leading hospitals in the region. Artificial intelligence, AI, is the key enabler of this transformation and is being leveraged in critical areas such as predictive diagnosis, radiology and imaging, as well as career counseling.
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"Our early experiments with AI will soon start delivering the outcomes in the domain of predictive diagnosis, especially in oncology." said Sadaf Sheikh, group CIO, Sir Ziauddin Hospital. "We are also experimenting with generative AI to ultra-refine the radiology image quality so that technicians can give more accurate results."
In this video interview with ISMG, Sheikh discussed:
- The hospital's three-year technology transformation road map;
- The importance of hyper-converged, public cloud infrastructure for faster and scalable application deployment;
- AI use cases and the future of healthcare.
Sheikh is a digital evangelist who is passionate about data analytics and AI. She has a proven track record of seamlessly adapting to new technologies and quickly establishing credibility across a large number of technologies and diverse industries. Prior to her current role, she was the CIO of PepsiCo in Pakistan.
