Stanford launches an accelerated test of AI to help with Covid-19 care

In the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford clinicians and researchers are exploring whether artificial intelligence could help manage a potential surge of Covid-19 patients -- and identify patients who will need intensive care before their condition rapidly deteriorates. The challenge is not to build the algorithm -- the Stanford team simply picked an off-the-shelf tool already on the market -- but rather to determine how to carefully integrate it into already-frenzied clinical operations. "The hardest part, the most important part of this work is not the model development. But it's the workflow design, the change management, figuring out how do you develop that system the model enables," said Ron Li, a Stanford physician and clinical informaticist leading the effort. Li will present the work on Wednesday at a virtual conference hosted by Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.