The Mount Sinai Health System has opened the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health. Hamilton and Amabel James at the Icahn School of Medicine to support collaboration across multiple programs aimed at improving health care delivery through the research, development, and application of artificial intelligence tools and technologies.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
By bringing these programs under one roof and better integrating research and data, Mount Sinai’s goal is to support artificial intelligence-driven medical discoveries. The novel center will provide researchers with an optimal environment in which they can advance their understanding, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, health system and medical school officials said Monday.
Mount Sinai, one of Recent York’s largest academic health systems, announced that a novel 65,000-square-foot artificial intelligence research center will be located on eight of the 12 floors of a renovated building located in the center of its Manhattan campus.
At the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health. Hamilton and Amabel James will be staffed by about 40 principal investigators and 250 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, computer scientists and support staff, including Windreich’s Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, the health system said.
While the medical school has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence research and development in U.S. health care, it is among the first to establish a dedicated artificial intelligence research center, according to Dr. Eric Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute and dean of academic and research affairs. at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and chief scientific officer at Mount Sinai Health System.
“By integrating artificial intelligence technology with genomics, imaging, pathology, electronic health records and more, Mount Sinai is revolutionizing physicians’ ability to diagnose and treat patients, transforming the future of health care,” it said in a statement.
“If we want to use artificial intelligence for the greater good and make significant progress in health care, investing in artificial intelligence research and development at academic institutions is essential,” added Dr. Dennis S. Charney, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean at Icahn Mount Sinai and president of the system Health Care for Science.
Mount Sinai says the school’s AI and health department is working with several partnerships and institutions across the health system, including one creating artificial intelligence to integrate machine learning and AI-driven decision-making across the health system’s eight hospitals, Mount Sinai said Sinai.
The novel Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health will also host the Institute of Digital Health. Hasso Plattner at Mount Sinai, the Institute for Genomic Health and the Department of Medical Genetics, the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Imaging, and the Institute for Personalized Medicine.
A BIGGER TREND
Mount Sinai has explored several ways AI can tackle how healthcare is delivered, from analyzing surgery videos to streamlining hospital administrative tasks.
In April, Mount Sinai researchers assessed the potential employ of immense language models for automating medical coding, comparing LLM with OpenAI, Google and Meta. After verifying that the correct medical codes could be successfully matched to their corresponding official text descriptions, the researchers concluded that they were not suitable for medical coding work.
As the health system continues to implement some applications of artificial intelligence models, Dr. Bruce Darrow, the health system’s chief medical information officer and former interim chief digital information officer, said in June that all Mount Sinai applications will soon incorporate artificial intelligence.
“Almost any software we employ at Mount Sinai, if it doesn’t already have AI built in, I can expect to have AI built in within the next three to five years. this technology is moving forward,” he said.
Then in September, Mount Sinai named Lisa S. Stump as CDIO and dean of information technology at its medical school to combine its clinical, educational and research missions.
A representative of the health care system said her first task will be to plan and develop a comprehensive digital enterprise ecosystem that will improve collaboration between healthcare providers and researchers and work on the integration of novel technologies such as artificial intelligence.
ON RECORDING
“As artificial intelligence technology advances rapidly, this moment is critical to maintaining our leadership in digital health,” Nestler said in a statement about the novel artificial intelligence center.
“While large technology companies have significant funding and resources to access high-performance equipment, they lack access to the healthcare system, which limits their progress in this area,” Charney added.