Scientist: Eric Sutherland

Eric Sutherland profileEric Sutherland is a Senior Health Economist at the OECD, where he leads work on Digital Health. His role focuses on providing policy guidance for digital tools, integrated data, and responsible analytics, including artificial intelligence. He is also responsible for updating the OECD’s 2016 Recommendation on Health Data Governance.

Eric supports digital health policies that protect data (security and privacy) while ensuring timely access to high-quality data. This helps individuals, health workers, and policy makers make the best use of information. He has published on several topics. These include AI in health, digital security, and readiness for digital health transformation across the OECD.

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World Patient Safety Day: Preventing harm in healthcare in a digitalised world

17 September is World Patient Safety Day. Can innovation and technology help to guarantee patient safety? Experts believe it is crucial to invest more in reducing patient harm. It is also important to fully understand the pros and cons of using new digital health technologies for this purpose.

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A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Eric Sutherland on patient safety and digital health

Eric Sutherland is a Senior Health Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He works at this inter governmental organisation based in Paris, France. He leads the OECD’s work in digital health. His goal is to build integrated digital health ecosystems. He provides policy guidance on digital tools, data integration, and responsible ...

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