Earlier this month, Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare became the newest members of the Health AI Partnership (HAIP), a multi-stakeholder collaborative of more than 20 organizations and growing that seeks to create safe spaces for peer learning and collaboration to address the most challenging issues health care leaders face while implementing AI.
The HAIP collaborative serves as a resource for contemporary guidance for healthcare professionals using AI and related emerging technologies and a platform for community-generated, expert-curated guidance, resources, and standards for responsible use of AI in healthcare.
Philip Payne, PhD, the Janet and Bernard Becker Professor, Chief Data Scientist, and director of the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics, will serve as Corps Site Leader for WashU Medicine.
“It is critically important that as we work to adopt and adapt AI tools that can be used to improve the quality, safety, and value of care delivery, we also engage with the broader scientific and medical community to address fundamental questions that will inform these efforts – like how we prioritize solutions that advance health equity and improve patient care, or how we address provider burn-out while also enhancing patient experience. This collaborative gives us an essential platform to engage in such discussions and to advocate for practical solutions with immediate impact,” Payne said.
Tom Maddox, MD, MS, vice president for digital products and innovation at BJC HealthCare and frequent I2DB collaborator, will serve as Core Site Leader for BJC.
Drs. Payne and Maddox will both be part of a leadership council that shapes and executes the strategy, operations and sustainability planning of the partnership. Members of the leadership council make decisions about the scope and priorities of the partnerships.