Vanderbilt University Medical Center was recently named a leading health system in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), according to Becker’s Healthcare.
According to a list compiled by Becker’s Healthcare and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for Health Innovation at the University of California San Diego, VUMC was cited as one of 11 health systems pioneering “demonstrated, outcomes-based AI solutions” thanks to the leadership of Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and its new AI Discovery & Vigilance to Accelerate Innovation & Clinical Excellence (ADVANCE) Center.
“AI holds great promise for improving health and health care at a time when such improvements are sorely needed,” said Peter Embí, MD, MS, professor and chair of Biomedical Informatics, Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation and co-director of ADVANCE. “We feel it’s the responsibility of institutions like ours to lead in demonstrating how Health AI innovations can benefit our patients and communities and ensure that we do so responsibly and equitably. This is what drives us.”
“It is truly an honor to see our multidisciplinary approach to AI development, implementation and evaluation is being recognized at a national scale,” said Bradley Malin, PhD, Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Computer Science, vice chair for Research Affairs in DBMI and co-director of ADVANCE. “We look forward to continuing to lead in this space and changing the face of health care.”