HIMSS24: Microsoft, 16 health systems to operationalize AI under new partner network
Sixteen health systems, Microsoft and other healthcare technology organizations are the latest to band together and hammer out best practices and standards for AI in care.
Calling itself the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), the latest provider-tech AI collaboration aims to improve the quality and trustworthiness of novel AI capabilities coming to healthcare.
Technologies such as those to help screen patients or automate administrative tasks can improve care and cut costs but need “rigorous development and evaluation standards” to ensure they are applied responsibly, the group said in a joint announcement.
“By working together, TRAIN members aim to establish best practices for operationalizing responsible AI, helping improve patient outcomes and safety while fostering trust in healthcare AI,” David Rhew, M.D., global chief medical officer and vice president of healthcare, said in a statement.
TRAIN includes major health systems including Mercy, Mass General Brigham, Providence, Cleveland Clinic and AdventHealth. The collaboration is also tapping OCHIN, a nonprofit tech provider and consultant for community health organizations, and revenue cycle management software company TruBridge as partners “to help ensure that every organization, regardless of resources, has access to TRAIN’s benefits,” according to the announcement.
Of note, many of TRAIN’s founding members are also participants in a prior healthcare AI stakeholder group, the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI). TRAIN will build upon that group’s work by operationalizing its principles for trustworthy healthcare AI, partners said in the announcement.
“We look forward to leveraging the Coalition for Health AI’s (CHAI) best practice guidelines and guardrails to build practical tools that make responsible AI a reality among healthcare delivery organizations in service to all our patients,” Michael Pencina, chief data scientist for TRAIN member Duke Health and a co-founder and board member of CHAI, said in a statement.