With 4,300 unique presentations from an estimated 30,000 authors at this year’s ERS, there was a lot of information to absorb… so we invited Dr Meredith Barrett, Vice President of Patient Health Insights at ResMed, who attended the event in Vienna, Austria, to share her highlights.

ERS’s theme was ‘Humans and Machines: Getting the Balance Right’ setting the scene for enthusiastic debate about artificial intelligence (AI) and what it means for the future of sleep and breathing health. Meredith distills the main talking points down into two key areas of insight:

Potential benefits of AI:

• Increasing the accuracy of sleep-disordered breathing diagnostics
• Analysing predictive factors for chronic conditions such as COPD and asthma
• Detecting patterns in patient data to help personalise care
• Improving efficiency and reducing workload for healthcare professionals

Questions and concerns about AI:

• Whether it could undermine the patient-clinician relationship
• The need for research on safety and effectiveness in real-world settings
• Ethical questions, such as whether AI could cause biased outcomes
• How patient data is handled and accessed

As well as exploring these topics with host Daniela Gautschi, Meredith tells us about other aspects of the agenda that caught her attention – with a focus on digital health, novel diagnostics in sleep, understanding the future burden of respiratory disease, and how to promote treatment adherence by understanding a user’s social context.

Guest:

Dr Meredith Barrett, Vice President, Patient Health Insights, ResMed

Host:

Daniela Gautschi is ResMed’s Director Clinical Advocacy Europe, and has a passion for exploring the latest developments in the world of sleep and breathing health. Her key focus is advocating for digital health innovations to help ensure access to good quality care.

References and useful links:

1. Kaye, H.C. Lyson, E. Boers, A. Allen, V.T. Vuong, V. Bala, and M. Barrett. A Mixed-methods Exploration of Patient Perspectives on Pap Therapy Initiation: Implications for Improved Outreach and Education. D102. HOT TOPICS IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. May 1, 2024, A7300-A7300
2. Boers, A. Allen, A. Benjafield, L.E. Crotty Alexander, A. Malhotra and M. Barrett. A scenario-based modeling study to project the future burden of COPD in Western Europe accounting for air pollution, tobacco smoking, and e-cigarette vaping. (abstract). ERS 2024.
3. Kaye, L., Vuong, V., Benjafield, A., Gupta, P., & Barrett, M. (2024). Role of Partnership in Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) Therapy
   Adoption in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Eur Respiratory Soc 2024 (abstract)
4. Kaye, L., Vuong, V., Benjafield, A., Gupta, P., & Barrett, M. (2024). The association between behavioral clusters and short-term PAP usage in OSA. Eur Respiratory Soc 2024 (abstract)
5. Zack, Travis et al. (2024) Assessing the potential of GPT-4 to perpetuate racial and gender biases in health care: a model evaluation study. The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 6, Issue 1, e12 – e22. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00225-X

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