University of Maryland consortium launches Institute for Health Computing

The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership this week announced a transformative partnership to establish the University of Maryland 3 Institute for Health Computing, or UM-3-IHC. WHY IT MATTERS The effort is led by the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the University of Maryland, College Park, in collaboration with the University of Maryland Medical System and Montgomery County, Maryland. The goal is to harness advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning to evaluate secure and deidentified and health data to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases in patients across the state of Maryland. The new institute will focus on algorithms to enable precision patient care for diabetes, high blood pressure, risk of opioid overdose and other health risks. "Scaling up research to address grand challenges in the life sciences has shifted from collecting data to using cutting-edge technology to discover meaningful patterns hidden in the data," said Darryll J. Pines, president of the University of Maryland, College Park, in a statement.