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UMass Chan and MITRE launch Health AI Assurance Laboratory with MassTech grant
UMass Chan Medical School and MITRE, operator of federally funded research and development centers, announced the establishment of the Health AI Assurance Laboratory, a collaborative initiative to advance health artificial intelligence in the public interest. The initiative is at the forefront of efforts in the United States, and the first in Massachusetts, to ensure AI technology in health care is safe and effective for everyone using it.
The Health AI Assurance Laboratory team is led by Program in Digital Medicine founder David McManus, MD'02, MSc'12, the Richard M. Haidack Professor of Medicine, chair and professor of medicine; Adrian Zai, MD, PhD, MPH, associate professor of quantitative & population health sciences; and Miles Thompson, AI assurance solutions lead at MITRE. The team will work with collaborators from education, health care systems, private industry, nonprofit organizations and public agencies to evaluate specific health AI applications. The program builds both on UMass Chan’s Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies as well as UMass Chan’s experience with the National Institutes of Health Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, or RADx, program.
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Program in Digital Medicine Directors Present at UMass Chan Media Fellowship
Apurv Soni, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Health Systems Science, Clinical Informatics Section, Neil Marya, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, and Honghuang Lin, PhD, professor of medicine in the Division of Health Systems Science, all co-directors in the Program in Digital Medicine, recently presented at the 2024 UMass Chan Media Fellowship in March. There, Drs. Soni, Marya, and Lin presented their work on artificial intelligence in health care.
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PODCAST: UMass Chan experts discuss benefits, concerns of AI in health care
In a new Voices of UMass Chan episode, two UMass Chan Medical School experts at the forefront of digital medicine discuss the potential impact of artificial intelligence on health care. The conversation with David McManus, MD’02, MSc’12, and Neil Marya, MD’12, covers various topics, including the definition of AI and its historical context.
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Digital Medicine: Three ways technology may soon improve your health
At UMass Chan Medical School, an innovative team is creating and studying the digital technology of tomorrow right now, harnessing its power to improve health and access to care.
