Prof. Ahmed El-Kased, President of Menoufia University, chaired a PhD thesis discussion committee at the Faculty of Commerce, which discussed the evaluation of the impact of applying artificial intelligence in sleep medicine on the quality of performance in university hospitals at the Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, submitted by Prof. Rana Helmy Imam El-Halbawi, Professor of Chest Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, Menoufia University, to obtain a professional doctorate degree in business administration.
The importance of this research lies in the fact that artificial intelligence is a modern technology that has become inevitable to obtain greater efficiency and new opportunities for medical service providers to detect and treat patients with sleep-disordered breathing during sleep early to increase patient satisfaction with the health services provided.
Prof.Ahmed El-Kased expressed his happiness with this choice and the research of professors in the field of medicine in the fields of artificial intelligence and obtaining a professional doctorate in management sciences, stressing the importance of management being based on scientific foundations.
Prof. Ahmed El-Kased stressed the importance of artificial intelligence in developing the medical field and improving healthcare provided to patients, as it provides many benefits and capabilities that contribute to improving diagnosis and treatment, accelerating medical research, and developing medicines, in addition to improving hospital management and providing remote healthcare. It also contributes to reducing the high costs and long time required to develop medicines and helps in determining treatment plans and appropriate surgeries for each patient based on their health condition, medical history and genetic makeup, which increases the effectiveness of treatment and reduces side effects.
El-Kased pointed out the need to conduct more research in this field, noting that despite the great benefits provided by artificial intelligence in the medical field, it still faces some drawbacks and challenges that must be taken into account, including the difficulty of determining responsibility when an artificial intelligence system causes harm to the patient, whether it is the responsibility of the developers or the doctors who relied on the system, in addition to the fact that the development and application of artificial intelligence systems in the medical field requires large investments in hardware, software and training, which may make them unavailable to everyone.
The thesis included research on the impact of applying artificial intelligence on comprehensive quality management within the health system and the role of artificial intelligence in medicine and its impact on diagnosis, treatment and disease prediction and on the efficiency of managing the health care system, the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence in the health sector, World Health Organization guidelines, and controls for the use of artificial intelligence (Chat GPT) in higher education and scientific research.
The discussion and supervision committee included Prof.Ahmed Farag El-Kased, Professor of Oncology Surgery and President of Menoufia University, Prof. Amjad Hamed Abdel Razek Amara, Professor of Business Administration and former Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Menoufia University, and Prof.Hassanein Al-Sayed Taha
Former Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Sadat University
And Dr. Marwa Mohamed Younis, Lecturer of Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce, Menoufia University