UCSF, Intel Join Forces to Develop Deep Learning Analytics for Health Care

UC San Francisco's Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI) today announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to deploy and validate a deep learning analytics platform designed to improve care by helping clinicians make better treatment decisions, predict patient outcomes, and respond more nimbly in acute situations. The collaboration brings together Intel's leading edge computer science and deep learning capabilities with UCSF's clinical and research expertise to create a scalable, high-performance computational environment to support enhanced frontline clinical decision making for a wide variety of patient care scenarios. Until now, progress toward this goal has been difficult because complex, diverse datasets are managed in multiple, incompatible systems. This next-generation platform will allow UCSF to efficiently manage the huge volume and variety of data collected for clinical care as well as newer "big data" from genomic sequencing, monitors, sensors and wearables. These data will be integrated into a highly scalable "information commons" that will enable advanced analytics with machine learning and deep learning algorithms.