Photo: Dr. Geeta Nayyar – known by many as "Dr. G" – has a long track record as a physician IT leader, who thinks creatively about the intersection of technology and healthcare.
Her jobs over the years have included serving as chief medical officer of tech giants such a AT&T and Salesforce and AT&T. She sits on the board of the American Telemedicine Association. She's an advisor to the American Medical Association.
You may have seen her this past March, onstage as the conference host and emcee of HIMSS24. She's also an author. Nayyar's most recent USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling book, , explores the profound personal and public health risks associated with digitally propagated mis- and disinformation.
The harmful effects of inaccurate medical info were seen most starkly during the years-long COVID-19 crisis, of course. But they've long been a significant challenge and remain so to this day. In some ways, in fact, the challenge is only getting more insidious as online social media evolves and the unhealthy side-effects of technology – ill-informed "influencers" on TikTok or Instagram, hallucinatory generative AI chatbots, falsehood-spewing deep fakes – proliferate.
Later this summer, Nayyar is scheduled to deliver the opening keynote of the , which kicks off in Boston on September 5. We spoke with her recently about misinformation in healthcare, how AI is exacerbating the problem and what conscientious professionals can do to push back on it, ensuring the.
