We believe that it is our job to advance AI as far and as fast as we can to save lives, while ensuring our algorithms are safe, equitable, and secure. As a key first step, alongside our chief internal partner, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, we are working on creating platforms capable of analyzing and computing greater amounts of data than ever before.

Our vision is to build a framework that serves as a foundation for AI efforts throughout the Mount Sinai Health System. This “intelligent fabric” will weave together AI services that support nurses and physicians, scientists, and administrators. At the local level, it will provide productivity and decision-support tools for diagnosis, treatment, and workflow optimization. Most important, because of the Department’s efforts, rather than operating in silos, these tools will connect to accompany patients throughout their care.

At the hospital level, the intelligent fabric will make AI tools and techniques available to all disciplines and divisions, thereby breaking the deadlock of local, tactical analysis in reaction to emergencies. It will also enhance long-term strategic decision-making, both in the care of individual patients and across the entire Mount Sinai Health System.

For patients, the intelligent fabric will extend well beyond our care spaces. AI companions will support patients in healthy living and disease prevention. Intelligent tools will chaperone patients to the right care at the right time, and then help them during rehabilitation. These services will envelope patients with personalized care, providing the confidence that comes with knowing that they will get the right treatment when they need it.

The outstanding promise of AI remains positive as long as we continue to embrace the human values that the Mount Sinai Health System practices every day: safety, equity, agility, empathy, teamwork, and creativity. In this new dawn of possibility, the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health pledges to continue to place patients front and center, forever.

Thomas J. Fuchs, Dr.Sc.
Chair, Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Director, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health
Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Barbara T. Murphy Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai