REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday,
leading public, private, educational and research organizations
across the U.S. healthcare and life sciences industries announced
the formation of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation
Coalition (AI3C). The coalition brings together the Brookings
Institution, Cleveland Clinic, Duke Health, Intermountain
Healthcare, Microsoft, Novant Health, Plug and Play, Providence, UC San Diego, and University of Virginia with the goal of maximizing
technology to provide recommendations, tooling and best practices
for AI in healthcare.
"The goal of the newly created AI3C is to establish a pragmatic
coalition with public and private organizations to advance health
by identifying and addressing significant societal and industry
barriers," said Patty Obermaier,
vice president, US Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft. "I am
excited about the launch of AI3C and working with its distinguished
board as we continue the momentum toward serving the needs of
patients and communities through AI innovation."
The AI3C board, composed of volunteer senior executives acting
as advisors, will work to co-create AI solutions for positive
societal and healthcare outcomes, identify and set the AI strategy
and vision for a variety of projects, and track the success of
AI adoption in the industry. Each member organization has nominated
its own AI ambassadors to serve as regional leads and drive
programs. All members have an equal voice in the way the coalition
operates and is governed.
The AI3C intends to apply AI to resolve
significant challenges in business such as:
- General economic and industrial challenges –
including research transfer, industry standards and funding
instruments
- Digital skills and employability – including
organizational and cultural challenges, as well as labor
policies
- Data privacy – including data access and shared
innovation
Overall, the AI3C objectives are to accelerate AI innovation and
adoption by:
- Showcasing emerging AI tools
- Gathering industry-specific AI use cases, best practices and
research feedback
- Transforming the AI workforce
- Preparing students for careers in AI and data science
To achieve these goals, AI3C members will focus on providing a
comprehensive program for responsible AI education and upskilling.
Moreover, the AI3C will engage with the healthcare community
through white papers, new tools and programs, and social media
outreach to make AI more applicable and impactful. The coalition
will host quarterly meetings and events to transparently
communicate the resolution and progress of solving key challenges
through AI adoption.
The AI3C will provide recommendations and advice on a wide array
of AI topics including responsible healthcare innovation, health
equity and workforce transformation to reduce clinical fatigue.
More details about the coalition's programs and its impact will be
available later this year. The AI3C follows in the footsteps of the
National Coalition for Artificial Intelligence in Financial
Services, which was launched in December
2020.
"Meeting the urgent need for new health technologies requires
diverse partners coming together across sectors. With perspectives
from AI practitioners, healthcare professionals and the research
community, the AI3C can guide collaborative projects that
accelerate the translation of frontier technologies from research
to solution development, to implementation," said Ashley Llorens, vice president and managing
director, Microsoft Research and Incubations.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and
every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Perspectives from AI3C member
organizations
"AI in health care provides us powerful tools to address
systemic challenges by identifying true root causes. At Duke
Health, we are committed to eliminating inequities in clinical care
and reducing social barriers to a healthy life through the
Collaborative to Advance Clinical Health Equity, led by Dr.
Richard Shannon. AI will empower us
to redesign the care delivery system at the population level
and I look forward to creating health equity for our
generation and future generations." – Shamyla Lando, chief
technology officer, Duke Health
"At Intermountain, we've made significant advances in applying
AI and machine learning methods in the diagnosis, treatment, and
automation of routine tasks. AI helps us create a frictionless
experience for our caregivers and our patients. We believe this
coalition will create the suitable space for AI healthcare leaders
to have the necessary dialog to advance AI-enabled care process
models across settings of care for our patients and communities. By
coming together, we can help influence the delivery science to help
translate technical capability and best practice into clinical and
operational impact." – Greg
Nelson, Area Vice President for analytics services,
Intermountain Healthcare
"Novant Health is honored to be a member of the AI3C. Our
involvement exemplifies Novant Health's commitment to innovation
and helping our communities be as healthy as
possible through efforts such as reducing health
inequity, creating unbiased personalized medicine and
improving access to care. The future of health
is boundless when we collaborate across industries, apply
advanced technology and ensure responsible innovation." –
Karl Hightower, chief data officer
and senior vice president, data products and services, Novant
Health
"We at Providence feel that the
responsible and equitable implementation of AI will be a critical
element of healthcare transformation and to achieve our vision of
Health for a Better World. We applaud Microsoft for bringing this
coalition together and are excited to partner with these esteemed
institutions to drive progress on how AI can be a force multiplier
for good in healthcare." – Brett
MacLaren, chief data officer, Providence
"As the role of AI continues to grow in our society and economy,
this community of independent scientists would be a conduit between
healthcare industry and technology companies, academia, policy
makers and the general public, ensuring faster development of AI
solutions and smoother adoption of such technologies by end users."
– Niam Yaraghi, nonresident
senior fellow, The Brookings Institution
"Historically it has taken up to 17 years from the inception of
an idea to the market introduction of a novel therapy. The COVID-19
pandemic made it very clear this is too long. We need to shrink
that, and advancing AI can help us accelerate research as
historical computational limitations of storage, handling, and
analyzing data have not been equipped to handle the volumes of data
we now generate. The potential for AI used clinical research is
immense. It will enable us to ask questions in new ways, speed
discovery, and begin individualizing medicine." – Matthew Kull, chief information officer, The
Cleveland Clinic
"UC San Diego has already pioneered a number of AI models with
direct impact on clinical care and biomedical research and
recognized the importance of proper training in this area, with
programs at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels.
This consortium will help catalyze equivalent developments all
around the country in the area of ethical and trustworthy AI for
healthcare and life sciences. This is very timely." –
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, chair
of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego Health
and council faculty at the UC San Diego Halıcıoğlu Data Science
Institute.
"AI has enormous potential to advance health care through
improvements in the treatment and prevention of disease. I am
particularly excited to explore the ways AI can be used to improve
health equity and ensure everyone has access to the latest advances
in machine learning-enabled diagnostics and clinical assessments."
– Donald E. Brown, senior
associate Dean - University of
Virginia
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