How UPMC uses artificial intelligence to keep clinicians happy, patients healthy

There is a lot of hype around using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in care provider settings. Last week, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) partnered with Microsoft, an expert in AI tools, to launch the first project under the new Healthcare NExt initiative aimed at improving clinicians' workflow, signaling continued interest and investment in the healthcare AI space. The nonprofit, which operates 25 hospitals and 600 doctors' offices and outpatient facilities, is at the forefront of the healthcare AI wave. It invests in the companies that create AI capabilities and launches its own startups, in addition to implementing co-created technologies for its clinicians to use with their patients. Dr. Rasu Shrestha, UPMC chief innovation officer and executive vice president of UPMC Enterprises, the institution's commercialization arm, told Healthcare Dive that its AI technologies has resulted in "quite the transformation" as they have allowed for an increased ...