Dr. Jigar Patel

Yes, thanks, Stan. Thanks, Clarence. Thanks, team, for having me. My name's Dr. Jigar Patel, as Stan said. I've been at Cerner, now Oracle, 16 plus years. And I started as a pathologist. Transfusion medicine was my subspecialty in clinical practice. I was at the University of Kansas Medical Center before joining Cerner. Kind of lucky happenstance in my career. I was in Kansas City.

Yes, thanks, Stan. Thanks, Clarence. Thanks, team, for having me. My name's Dr. Jigar Patel, as Stan said. I've been at Cerner, now Oracle, 16 plus years. And I started as a pathologist. Transfusion medicine was my subspecialty in clinical practice. I was at the University of Kansas Medical Center before joining Cerner. Kind of lucky happenstance in my career. I was in Kansas City.

Cerner was based in Kansas City. I have an engineering undergraduate, so I was kind of, and as a pathologist, always involved in informatics. In most of my time at Cerner, I was on the client side. I did sales, implementations, the whole nine yards of client interactions, led various groups from a chief medical officer responsibility

Cerner was based in Kansas City. I have an engineering undergraduate, so I was kind of, and as a pathologist, always involved in informatics. In most of my time at Cerner, I was on the client side. I did sales, implementations, the whole nine yards of client interactions, led various groups from a chief medical officer responsibility

And then eight years ago, I finally dove into product management and joined a team that is composed almost entirely, which is composed entirely, except for myself, of legacy Oracle people. So I was a stranger in a strange land. I was the only clinician in the group. And I was the only legacy Cerner guy in the group.

And then eight years ago, I finally dove into product management and joined a team that is composed almost entirely, which is composed entirely, except for myself, of legacy Oracle people. So I was a stranger in a strange land. I was the only clinician in the group. And I was the only legacy Cerner guy in the group.

So that had a bunch of different implications, but then got to dive in and understand artificial intelligence and our strategies going forward from a cloud delivery perspective, and then how we're going to bring it to healthcare specifically. So very excited. I talk about this topic all day, every day. So I love talking about it and happy to be here and talking to you folks.

So that had a bunch of different implications, but then got to dive in and understand artificial intelligence and our strategies going forward from a cloud delivery perspective, and then how we're going to bring it to healthcare specifically. So very excited. I talk about this topic all day, every day. So I love talking about it and happy to be here and talking to you folks.

Yeah, artificial intelligence is a machine mimicking human capabilities. And so that one simple example of how to think about that is, how do I understand someone you stand talking to me? That's speech AI. How do I take a conversation or voice and turn it into some digital text? So that's one example. How do I understand? Once I've got that digital text, then I can apply a language service.

Yeah, artificial intelligence is a machine mimicking human capabilities. And so that one simple example of how to think about that is, how do I understand someone you stand talking to me? That's speech AI. How do I take a conversation or voice and turn it into some digital text? So that's one example. How do I understand? Once I've got that digital text, then I can apply a language service.

How do I understand that text in some way? Other kind of what I would refer to as pure AI services are things like vision. How do I take an image or a video or something and perceive it? How does a computer machine perceive it in a way that's useful and interprets like a human would?

How do I understand that text in some way? Other kind of what I would refer to as pure AI services are things like vision. How do I take an image or a video or something and perceive it? How does a computer machine perceive it in a way that's useful and interprets like a human would?

It's both, I think. There are lots of people that are starting to organize their lives. And the services, the AI services I refer to are kind of, like I said, pure. The real power is when you start to aggregate them together. If you take speech and language and generative AI and And I say, okay, I understand what you're saying to me. I interpret that thing.

It's both, I think. There are lots of people that are starting to organize their lives. And the services, the AI services I refer to are kind of, like I said, pure. The real power is when you start to aggregate them together. If you take speech and language and generative AI and And I say, okay, I understand what you're saying to me. I interpret that thing.

And then I create content from it using a generative service. That's when you start to get real power. Another simpler example is document understanding. Using a vision service, I understand what's on a page. I take the text off it, turn it into language, and then interpret and codify in a way that can be reused. Now, Individually, I was thinking about this this morning.

And then I create content from it using a generative service. That's when you start to get real power. Another simpler example is document understanding. Using a vision service, I understand what's on a page. I take the text off it, turn it into language, and then interpret and codify in a way that can be reused. Now, Individually, I was thinking about this this morning.

I was thinking, hey, why am I not using AI services in my own organization of myself and augmenting me and automating some of me in a way that's useful? And so I have to sort through that from a personal philosophical level first.

I was thinking, hey, why am I not using AI services in my own organization of myself and augmenting me and automating some of me in a way that's useful? And so I have to sort through that from a personal philosophical level first.

But then on the professional side, you can think of it as a, it's useful to a professional, but then it can be useful to larger and larger groups as you think about the density of data and the amount of data. And how do you look at those things and understand those things in a way? We've talked about this in analytics a lot. How do I roll up dashboards and those sorts of things?

But then on the professional side, you can think of it as a, it's useful to a professional, but then it can be useful to larger and larger groups as you think about the density of data and the amount of data. And how do you look at those things and understand those things in a way? We've talked about this in analytics a lot. How do I roll up dashboards and those sorts of things?