Impact of COVID-19 on digital transformation of education and health

COVID-19 has accelerated digital information by multiple years in many industries and especially in education and health. UC Irvine Vice-Chancellor Tom Andriola was in the middle of it all. Within 6 months of accepting and defining the first ever Vice Chancellor & Chief Digital Officer of UC Irvine, Tom was thrust into shaping predictive analytics for identifying most likely patients for intensive care based on multiple sets of data and identifying patients who can be treated from home. Similarly, Tom’s team had to help educators who haven’t advanced much on remote learning to ensure that all the students are on par. Going forward, Tom is focusing on ensuring hybrid instruction is part of UCI’s DNA going forward. The episode discussed innovation and the strategic and tactical nature of innovation in great detail. Based on Phillips Health experience, Tom came to a conclusion that Data is a strategy and not just an asset and not just a facilitator and started using his experience at UCI. Given that data is interdisciplinary by nature, UCI team has started investing in Collaboratories where teams from multiple disciplines from UCI and the industry have come together to solve bigger problems.

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The primary goal of Data Transformers podcast is to accelerate digital transformation by bridging the gap between business goals and technology initiatives using Data as glue. Visit https://datatransformerspodcast.com for more details. With the rapid advancement of technologies such as AI, ML, IOT, Cloud computing et al and the explosion of data that these technologies rely on, it is absolutely important to manage the data in intelligent and efficient ways. We’d like to enable that by interviewing the transformers in the industry who are leading the way in digital transformation. We also would like to bring our perspectives, latest trends and most valuable resources to you so you could be a data transformer in your organization.