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Monday, November 23rd, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative (HSI) Lunch Series: Incentives Eat Algorithms: The Hidden Economics of AI Adoption in Life Sciences with Parisa Farzam, PhD
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Mon, Nov 23, 2026
11:30 AM – 1 PM EST (GMT-5)
E62-350
100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA United States
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Monday, November 23
11:30am - 1pm
E62 - 350
On Zoom
Lunch provided
AI models for health care and life sciences have never been stronger. They read scans, document clinical encounters, design molecules and raise productivity. Yet most never make it into routine use. In this talk, we take a close look at the economics of adoption and the work-value gap: the misalignment between those who bear the cost and effort of adopting AI and those who capture the value it creates. We close with early examples of how health systems, payers and life sciences companies have started to narrow it.
Parisa Farzam, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of Oxyverse, a platform for monitoring brain function in neurocritical care, and a Blavatnik Fellow at Harvard Business School. Previously, she led AI products in healthcare and life sciences at Bayer and IBM, taking them from development through launch and strategic partnerships. Across nearly two decades spanning clinical settings, Big Tech and pharma, she has focused on what it takes to move AI from technical promise to sustained use.
CEO & Co-founder, Oxyverse | Blavatnik Fellow, Harvard Business School
Any questions contact Lisa Maloney lmaloney@mit.edu
Speakers
Parisa Farzam, PhD
CEO & Co-founder
Oxyverse
https://www.linkedin.com/in/parisafarzam
Parisa Farzam, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of Oxyverse, a platform for monitoring brain function in neurocritical care, and a Blavatnik Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Previously, she led AI products in healthcare and life sciences at Bayer and IBM, taking them from development through launch and strategic partnerships. Across nearly two decades spanning clinical settings, Big Tech and pharma, she has focused on what it takes to move AI from technical promise to sustained use.
"Ana" Anne Quaadgras
Director
MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-quaadgras-6208778/
Is the Director of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative and a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan.
Her work focuses on health systems transformation, and the role of information technology in supporting that change.
Prior to her doctoral work, Anne was a management consultant for fifteen years, specializing in improving decision-making and investment processes in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries.
She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in chemical engineering from MIT. Anne earned her doctorate in information systems at Boston University, where her dissertation research explored how globally distributed groups of experts recognize and respond to operational problems.