Artificial intelligence (AI) is hoped to play an increasing role in healthcare delivery, but moving the application of predictive technology from the theory to reality has been a stumbling block. A latest partnership between Partners HealthCare and GE Healthcare is targeting at bridging this gap and bringing deep learning technology across the whole continuum of care.
Under a recently declared ten-year agreement between the Boston-based integrated delivery system and the health technology vendor, the partners expect to find ways to develop “new business models for applying AI to healthcare and establish products for extra medical specialties,” the announcement noted.
For instance, AI could be directed to solve issues in molecular pathology, genomics and population health.
The collaboration will occur through the newly developed Center for Clinical Data Science, a newly formed project of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The project will utilize multidisciplinary teams with broad access to data, computational infrastructure and clinical expertise. The initial concentration of the relationship will be on the development of applications that are intended to make better the clinician productivity and patient outcomes in diagnostic imaging.
“This is a significant moment for medicine,” stated David Torchiana, MD, CEO of Partners HealthCare. “Clinicians are inundated with data, and the patient experience suffers from inefficiencies in the healthcare industry. By merging the expertise at Mass General and Brigham and Women’s with the spirit of innovation at GE, this partnership has the resources and vision to increase the development and adoption of deep learning technology. Together, we can boost clinicians with the tools required to store, analyze and leverage the flood of information to more effectively deliver care to sufferers.”
Furthermore, the teams will co-develop an open platform on which Partners HealthCare, GE Healthcare and third-party developers can rapidly prototype, validate and share the applications with hospitals and clinics around the world.
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