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Stanford Medicine Program for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
We are working on a set of efforts collectively referred to as the Stanford Medicine Program for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, with the mission of bringing AI technologies to the clinic, safely, cost-effectively and ethically. See brochure. The four key components are:
Implementation: We partner with the
Data Science team in Technology and Digital Solutions at Stanford Healthcare to deploy predictive models in care delivery workflows. See our
effort in improving palliative care and its
coverage in Statnews.
Ensuring that models are useful: The utility of making a prediction and taking actions depends on factors beyond model accuracy, such as lead time offered by the prediction, the existence of a mitigating action, the cost and ease of intervening, the logistics of the intervention, and incentives of making the intervention.
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Safety, ethics, and health system effects: We map the multiple groups involved in taking action in response to a prediction and study their varying perspectives, positions, stakes, and commitments to pre-empt ethical challenges. Read our perspective on
addressing ethical challenges. We believe that the use of AI can lead to good decisions if we keep
human intelligence in the loop.
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We believe that the adoption of efficacious prediction-action pairing can massively improve the ability of a health system to find patients at risk and act early.
Russ Altman and Nigam Shah taking an in-depth look at the growing influence of “data-driven medicine.”
Keeping the Human in the Loop for Equitable and Fair Use of ML in Healthcare, at AIMiE 2018
Building a Machine Learning Healthcare System, at XLDB, April 30 2018