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Dr. Amy Sitapati, is the innaugural director of the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence at UC San Diego.<\/p>\nArtificial intelligence is rapidly inundating health care, from systems that transcribe doctor-patient conversations to algorithms trained\u00a0to spot anomalies in chest X-rays.<\/p>\n
A new initiative at UC San Diego, the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence, seeks to \u201charness transformative ideas\u201d arriving daily and determine which can effectively transform patient care and which are not likely to scale from proof-of-concept pilot projects to broad adoption.<\/p>\n
At least, that\u2019s part of the goal anyway.<\/p>\n
Dr. Amy Sitapati, is the innaugural director of the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n
The idea, explained Dr. Amy Sitapati, the institute\u2019s inaugural director and UCSD Health\u2019s chief medical information officer of population health, is not simply to identify the best emerging technology, but to view the entire landscape through a lens of patient service.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can study all of the fancy machine learning models you want in the cloud, but if they don\u2019t help real-world patients today, what good are they?\u201d Sitapati said.<\/p>\n
Sitapati is uniquely qualified to lead this effort. She earned her undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering before earning her medical doctorate, both from Case Western Reserve University. Specializing in internal medicine and still seeing patients, she has also worked in biomedical informatics research.<\/p>\n
According to an announcement<\/a> published online Monday, the institute will \u201cunify experts from UC San Diego Health and faculty across six academic schools\u201d on campus. This effort, Sitapati said, is not about governance but rather about collaboration across the broad set of academic specialties that medical AI is already touching.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to work across schools and get all of the right people in the room to build the new technology that\u2019s going to help real people, and that\u2019s what this institute is designed to do,\u201d she said. \u201cIt gives a structure for grants, for contracts, for education, for leaders to learn how to do this work and not be in any one specific school or program.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a unifying entity, so it takes the best of everyone trying to do this work and creates a home to supersize it.\u201d<\/p>\n UCSD has been among the university health systems pushing the AI revolution forward. An ongoing effort that uses algorithms to detect the likely development of deadly sepsis among emergency patients has received broad industry attention<\/a>, and a recent paper explores adding an AI chatbot to the university health system\u2019s online patient portal. Voluntary participants, researchers found<\/a>, enjoyed the experience of using a digital expert to better understand medical test results.<\/p>\n Having recently received treatment at Moores Cancer Center, Sitapati said she participated in the trial, trying to provoke the chatbot into saying something incorrect or insensitive about her own results.<\/p>\n \u201cIt didn\u2019t give me back anything that seemed incorrect, but it actually also highlighted a couple of things I hadn\u2019t seen in my hundreds of pages of lab procedure results,\u201d she said. \u201cI was like, \u2018wow, I learned something about my health by participating in this study, this is amazing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n UCSD, Sitapati said, is already significantly down the path of AI adoption with the technology already present, in one way or another, in about 100 different roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is rapidly inundating health care, from systems that transcribe doctor-patient conversations to algorithms trained\u00a0to spot anomalies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,1570,23,100,74,84,76,75,645,1696],"class_list":["post-389560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-health","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-science","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}