New England Council members General Electric (GE) and Partners HealthCare recently partnered to launch an initiative to improve medical care through artificial intelligence (AI) technology. GE engineers and developers will work with clinical and technology experts from Partners HealthCare hospitals to build software and create applications to help doctors in a variety of tasks. The two organizations hope to create software to help doctors interpret medical images and develop applications on genomics, population health, and additional areas of medicine. GE and Partners aim to build an open platform that can use hundreds of applications, but the team will start by developing software for radiology. Machine learning technology can sift through thousands of images using algorithms to identify patterns to help better diagnose and treat patients with conditions like cancers or strokes.