Tom Polen

Tom Polen is chairman, CEO and president of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a global medical technology company. He leads BD’s healthcare innovation work across medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, automation, robotics, supply chain operations, and AI-enabled care delivery.

AI and Robotics Will Make Today’s Hospitals Look Archaic

BD chief executive Tom Polen argues that AI and robotics will change hospitals so substantially over the next decade that today’s practices will look archaic. In a Bloomberg interview with Caroline Hyde, he described BD’s approach as an operational transformation: predictive AI for intensive-care patients, robotics to take non-clinical work off nurses, more care delivered at home, and supply chains built for resilience rather than just efficiency.

Bloomberg TechnologyMay 15, 20266 min read