Developing Products for Cancer Care with Annmarie Ison

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Annmarie Ison about developing safe and accurate software, how software can improve health care disparities and more.

•    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 0:14
•    About Ison 0:25
•    The interview 1:10
•    Tell me about how you got into this space […] Can you explain what software development is?  1:34
•    What is Elekta and what does the company do?  10:24
•    How do you feel that this type of innovation is transforming cancer care and treating oncology patients? 13:19
•    How is Elekta and its services helping to address health care disparities? 19:32
•    Where do you think AI fits into the bigger picture of the cancer care landscape?  24:53
•    If someone could only listen to the last few minutes of this episode, what would you want them to take away? 28:29
•    How to contact Ison 30:25
•    Thanks for listening 31:05

Annmarie Ison is head of customer service for the software business line at Elekta. She has over 25 years of experience as a software development professional, specializing in product development and software architecture for information management systems and radiation therapy delivery devices.

We’d love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Jain at oncologyoverdrive@healio.com. Follow Healio on X and LinkedIn: @HemOncToday and https://www.linkedin.com/company/hemonctoday/. Follow Dr. Jain on X: @ShikhaJainMD. Ison can be reached via email annmarie.ison@elekta.com or via LinkedIn. 

Disclosures: Jain and Ison report no relevant financial disclosures.