The Pediatric Moonshot: Reducing Health Inequity, Lowering Cost and Improving Outcomes for Children

There are no pediatric specialists in 60 percent of the rural counties in the United States. Diseases such as Cortical Dysplasia cause epileptic seizures, multiple times a day. The good news is that only 25,000 children are affected a year, but the bad news is that no one specialist sees enough cases to diagnose from an MRI scan. Building more medical schools and incentivizing pediatric cardiologists to live in Montana are not the solution to this problem. Instead, imagine privacy-preserving real-time AI applications deployed to the point of care in rural California or Rwanda.

This program will focus on the Pediatric Moonshot, whose mission is to reduce health-care inequity, lower costs and improve health outcomes for children rurally, locally and globally??"by creating privacy-preserving real-time AI applications based on access to data in all 1 million health-care machines in all 500 children’s hospitals in the world. We’ll talk about the progress to date making the mission a reality and the challenges and opportunities going forward.

Speaker: Dr. Timothy Chou, Pediatric Moonshot; Robert Lee Kilpatrick, Commonwealth Club, Moderator