The School of Medicine at Mount Sinai https://www.mountsinai.org has launched a new department dedicated to advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform healthcare. The Department of AI and Human Health is now the first department of its kind within a medical school in the U.S.
The department’s mission is to lead the AI-driven transformation of healthcare through innovative research, applying that knowledge to treatment in hospital and clinical settings to provide personalized care for each patient.
Thomas J. Fuchs, Dr.sc, Dean for AI and Human Health, Co-Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, and Professor of Computational Pathology and Computer Science in the Department of Pathology at Icahn Mount Sinai explains, “The overarching goal of the Department for AI and Human Health is to build AI systems at scale from data representing Mount Sinai’s diverse patient population. These systems will work seamlessly across all hospitals and care units to support physicians, foster research, and help with patient care and well-being.”
Dr. Fuchs and his team will guide the department in creating an “AI Fabric” to integrate machine learning and AI-driven decision-making throughout the health system’s eight hospitals. This will include creating a hub-and-satellite model to make new tools and techniques available to all Mount Sinai physicians, build an infrastructure for high performance computing, and provide access to data to improve Mount Sinai’s diagnostic and treatment capabilities.
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