What will healthcare systems, hospitals and other medical institutions be like decades in the future? Radiologist and healthcare executive Dr Gustavo Meirelles spins a yarn depicting what they might be capable of, and how today’s technology and current research will usher in this golden era.

The idea of owning one’s data is not new, though scattered data is a big obstacle to this ideal, above all in healthcare. Brazil has a potential solution, informatizing and integrating health data among private and public systems. Patients’ full access to and ownership of their data will lessen chances of their misuse and allow compensation for their use by others. Gustavo Meirelles, vice president and chief medical officer at Brazil’s second-largest diagnostic imager Alliar Group, elaborates.

Radiologist and healthcare executive Dr Gustavo Meirelles examines how Brazil’s RadVid-19 program has fostered affordable, AI-based healthcare during COVID-19 by teaming doctors, scientists, and entrepreneurs to arm the country’s healthcare system to handle this pandemic and future ones.