Welcome & Generative AI and Health: Maximizing Positive Impacts becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside documentation workflows, supervision meetings, treatment planning, and quality review. In Welcome & Generative AI and Health: Maximizing Positive Impacts, for this course, the practical stakes show up in faster workflow without clinical drift, privacy loss, or weak oversight, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Generative AI holds immense potential to address global health challenges, including neurodevelopmental disorders, but its successful implementation hinges on responsible development and deployment. This presentation explores how Generative AI can improve healthcare, and specifically the field of autism care, by enhancing education, assessment, intervention, and access. Key areas include providing accurate information, improving diagnostic accuracy, delivering personalized interventions, and scaling training for providers. We will also discuss Google's initiatives in this space. Ensuring safe, secure, and trustworthy AI models is paramount. We will emphasize the importance of fine-tuning models for specific use cases, protecting user data, and building appropriate trust. Finally, we will address the critical need to ensure consistent model performance for all groups. The goal is to ensure that AI's transformative potential in health benefits everyone, everywhere.
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Dr. Megan Jones Bell, Director of Consumer and Mental Health at Google, is a psychologist and health leader working at the intersection of health and technology. She has dedicated her career to improving mental and physical health for all with a focus on scaling access to evidence-based information and interventions using technology. Dr. Jones Bell has been a longtime advocate for mental health and has brought her human-centered approach into her work in academia, nonprofits, and the private sector. She brings this dedication to her work at Google where her team of health and strategy professionals provide clinical guidance for the development of Google’s consumer health products including Fitbit, Pixel, YouTube, and other products. Dr. Jones Bell also founded and leads the company-wide Mental Health Center of Excellence which guides Google’s efforts to promote and protect the mental health of billions of people through Google’s products and enable access to and quality of mental healthcare through strategic partnerships. She was chief strategy and science officer at Headspace and helped guide Headspace through its transformation from a meditation app into a comprehensive digital mental health platform, Headspace Health. Megan founded one of the first digital mental health companies, Lantern, where she pioneered blended mental health interventions leveraging software and coaching. Megan was an assistant professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She serves on several boards including the Child Mind Institute and Castilleja School, advises organizations dedicated to mental health and well-being and is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Megan earned her BA, graduating cum laude, from University of California, San Diego. She received her MS and PsyD from PGSP-Stanford University, and completed fellowships at Yale University and Stanford University School of Medicine.
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