Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing care delivery, and health systems around the country are investing millions into its potential.
Daniel Barchi, CIO at NewYork-Presbyterian in New York City, stopped by the "Becker's Healthcare Podcast" to discuss what his system is doing to invest in AI.
Question: Could you tell me more about the $15 million investment that NewYork-Presbyterian has made in developing AI tools for cardiovascular care?
Daniel Barchi: That specific investment is part of an overall investment that NewYork-Presbyterian has been making for years in research, in partnership with Columbia and now Cornell, our research in medical school partners to advance the care of medicine and patients in our institutions. More recently, we determined that what we wanted to do was focus not only on traditional approaches to research but to leverage the capabilities not only of Columbia and its medical school, but Columbia University, and not just Cornell Medicine but Cornell and Cornell Technology, their engineering departments, their business departments, their computer science departments. This specific investment was with Cornell Tech, here in New York City, to bring more AI resources into the work we were already doing in cardiology and cardiovascular research. Part of what we think is going to be successful here is that we've got great data sets. We have world-class physicians at Cornell and Columbia, and the research going on and then bringing the Cornell Tech AI to bear on the data sets is one way we could advance the kind of care that we're doing here.