Mayo Clinic uses AI startup to unlock data
Cerbras Systems, a supplier of artificial intelligence computer chips for deep learning applications, will provide both hardware and software development services to Mayo under the deal announced during a presentation at this week’s JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
WHY IT MATTERS
The artificial intelligence created from the anonymized Mayo Clinic data would eventually be made available on the Mayo Clinic Platform, according to Reuters.
The models will use generative AI and machine learning to create summaries of patient records and analyze images or genomic data, according to a presentation by Matthew Callstrom, Mayo’s medical director for strategy and chair of the radiology department.
“Mayo Clinic selected Cerebras as its first generative AI collaborator for its large-scale, domain-specific AI expertise to accelerate breakthrough insights for the benefit of patients,” Callstrom said in an announcement on the company’s website.
To make the “right” treatment decisions for an individual patient, “you have to weigh all those factors, you have to have a lot of experience,” he said in an interview for the Wire. story.
“That’s where AI comes in to augment that.”
Cerebras called Mayo Clinic an AI leader that is “finding new ways to diagnose, predict and cure diseases.”
Andrew Feldman, the company’s CEO, said it was a “multi-million dollar” deal over several years, but declined to comment on the cost of the partnership to Mayo Clinic, according to Reuters.
THE BIG TREND
As Mayo Clinic embraces technology to improve patient outcomes, Callstrom and other healthcare system leaders say AI won’t make decisions and generative AI won’t replace doctors.
“Empathy, listening, respect, personal preference. Whatever generative AI quality and accuracy we achieve, those generative AI systems are unlikely to have empathy,” Dr. John Halamka, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform. Healthcare IT news.
Because genAI is not transparent or consistent, “it is not yet reliable,” he noted in August.
ON THE RECORD
“The state-of-the-art AI models we are developing together will work with physicians to assist with patient diagnosis, treatment planning and outcomes,” Feldman said in the Cerebras announcement.
Andrea Fox is editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News.
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